CLARKE, James Stanier (ed.); FALCONER, William.

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The Shipwreck. First Clarke edition, "the best edition" of this "excellent descriptive poem by an ingenious and unfortunate author" (Lowndes), first published in 1762. This edition includes a biography of Falconer and fine engravings by James Fittler, engraver to George III, after drawings by the famed maritime painter Nicholas Pocock. Clarke would later publish The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson in 1809 with John McArthur.

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