The Unfortunate Shipwright [and] The Second Part of the Unfortunate Shipwright.

£3,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

[Bound together and no doubt issued with] Second part: The Second Part of the Unfortunate Shipwright, or the Faithful Narrative of the Unparallelled Sufferings of Robert Barker. ..London for and sold by the Sufferer for his own benefit, 1773. 8vo (approx 190 x 125mm). [2], 61-112pp., with a woodcut frontispiece before the text. A little dusty in places but otherwise a very good and largely uncut copy. Very Rare. ESTC records copies at Bristol Central Library, BL, Bodley; Library of Congress, New York Historical Society and Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Baker’s story was apparently first published as a broadside in c.1756 (see ESTC BL only). The first part in book form was first published in 1758 (Cambridge only). The present edition appears to be the first with woodcut illustrations and with an additional short Appendix “Since the foregoing narrative was wrote, several Things have occured to my memory…” The second part, also bound here, was first published in 1765 (New York Public Library and New York Historical Society only). With (incorrect) continuous pagination from the first part. [Together with]: The Second Part [only] of the Unfortunate Shipwright, or the Blind Man’s Travels Through many Parts of England in Pursuit of his Right. 8vo (202 x 121 mm). 40pp., with a woodcut frontispiece “The Sufferer in his present State”. A little dusty in places, some gatherings lightly and evenly browned, corners folded over in places and edges chipped but otherwise an entirely un

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