The Shipwreck

1785 The Shipwreck William Falconer ART Scottish Ships Nautical Poem Navigation "With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!" – William Falconer, The Shipwreck William Falconer was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose poetry focused on marine life and life at sea. His most important work, 'The Shipwreck', was written in 1762 and gained him… Read more about this item

London: William Miller, 1804. Fine Binding. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". Not Stated. A wonderfully bound epic poem by this Scottish writer, himself lost to a shipwreck. This is an epic poem by Scottish writer William Falconer (1732-1769). Falconer's writing was concerned mostly with the sea, having also written a dictionary of marine terminology. He wrote 'The Shipwreck'… Read more about this item

London : Printed for Walker and Edwards; F.C. and J. Rivington; J. Nunn; Cadell and Davies; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; ... [and 12 others], 1817. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Theodor Henking [bookplate]. Acceptable copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt with raised bands. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical… Read more about this item

London : Cadell and Davies, 1808. First Edition. Softcover. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; xiv, 135 pages. Notes; Refrence ; NCBEL 655. Subjects; Falconer, William. English poetry.

John Sharpe, 1822. A fine copy in in decorative full gilt calf.. Binding: Original full calf boards with tooled gilt and blind tooled decorative rules. Four raised bands in five compartments. Elaborate tooled gilt design on spine. Marbled pasted and free end papers, edges marbled. Gilt dentelles. Ilustrated with 6 plates including frontis. , Notes: Ex… Read more about this item

London: T Nelson and Sons, 1887. Hardcover. Very Good. Birket Foster. xvii, 167 pages, All page edges gilt, Blue cloth covered bevelled boards with Gilt illustration and titles to front and spine. Rubbing to extremities.

London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies; et al., 1811. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 3.5". None . The thirteenth edition of William Falconer's celebrated maritime poem, adorned with illustrations. Poem telling of the final voyage of the merchant ship Britannia and her crew. Written by William Falconer, Scottish epic poet of the eighteenth century, mostly concerned with… Read more about this item

London: T. Cadell. Very Good. 1806. Hardcover. THE SHIPWRECK By William Falconer. Twelfth Edition; Printed For T. Cadell and W. Davies., W. Flint, Printer. London, England. 1806. This book is hard-bound in gilt tooled full leather. The covers are scuffed, with edge-wear and rubbing to the corners and spine-ends.There is wear to the joints, with the… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Foster, Birket. 164pp, plus 34pp 'Memoir of Falconer''. Purple cloth-covered boards. Elaborately decorated in gilt with recessed panel. Bevelled edges. Gently rubbed at spine and covers, slightly faded spine. Gilt edging to text block. Numerous magnificent illustrations throughout. Neat, tight and… Read more about this item

London: T. Cadell , 1794. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4". T. Stothard; I Parker . A scarce edition of William Falconer's renowned epic poem about a ship being lost to sea. The scarce eighth edition. In a full calf binding with gilt detail. With four plates drawn by… Read more about this item

London: Printed for Walker and Edwards, 1817. Softcover. Near Fine. Later printing. Small 16mo. 96pp. Frontispiece engraving. Printed buff wrappers. Ads on rear wrap. Small name and ink splash on front wrap, small bookplate (in German) inside front wrap, else a nice, near fine copy. An attractive survivor in this fragile format.

London : John Sharpe, 1927. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 3.5". None . Handsomely bound in diced calf. Handsomely bound in diced calf. An epic poem by William Falconer. This poem recounts the final voyage of the merchant ship Britannia and her crew. It consists of three cantos. The Shipwreck was first published in 1762.Following its success… Read more about this item

Strand, London: T.Cadell, Jun. And W.Davies, 1796. Book. Fair. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. NB: Lacks elevation of fully-rigged merchant ship, and the chart of the ships path. Full leather binding with title in gilt on spine and gilt tooling to compartments on spine. Condition: Fair to good, covers are quite scuffed and shelfworn with the front… Read more about this item

London : T. Nelson and Sons , 1868. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". Birket Foster . This beautifully illustrated copy of the Scottish Poet William Falconer's The Shipwreck details Falconer's concern with life at sea. This attractive copy of William Falconer's epic poem The Shipwreck is the epitome of his concentration on life at sea. The… Read more about this item

Adam and Charles Black, 1858. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1858. No Edition Remarks. 153 pages. Full bound brown leather. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Water staining to top edge of pages throughout, text remains… Read more about this item

London: T. Nelson and Sons. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1868. Hardcover. Some fading and rubbing to spine and boards. ; 169 pages. 30 in-text engravings. Red cloth boards with gilt decoration on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 183 x 121mm. All page edges gilt.The prefatory material includes a memoir of Falconer by Robert Carruthers.… Read more about this item

With Life by Robert Carruthers. (London: T. Nelson and Sons: 1868) Spine lettered 'Illustrated Edition'. Gilt decorated cloth, bevelled boards pp. 169. Illustrated by Birket Foster. Engraved by Edmund Evans, Dalziel Brothers, and W.T. Green. All edges gilt (and still very bright). Front inner hinge just starting to split. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards rubbed;… Read more about this item

LONDON, MILLER, 1811, 1811. First edition thus. 8vo. 4 full-page and 5 vignette steel engravings by James Fittler after paintings by Nicholas Pocock. Introductory letter and biographical memoir by James Stainer Clarke. Later dark blue cloth, marbled edges. Good-very good. Poem in three cantos by Falconer (1732-69), servant of Alexander Campbell and patronized by the Duke of York; shipmate in… Read more about this item

for John Sharp, London, 1818. Extra engraved title and plates by Richard Westall. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 inches), 167-pages. Contemporary full tan calf, spine gilt in compartments with burgundy lettering pieces, sides with wide ornamental gilt borders. Some rubbing to extremities, short crack to upper joint, foxing to prelims; overall good.

Sharpe, 1822. Reprint. Full-Leather. Very Good. 16mo - over 5. Richard Westall. 167pp, no inscriptions, some rubbing to edges of boards and very slight loss to top of spine, illustrated, free front endpaper is loose but not detached, some spotting internally but no other loose pages, overall in very good condition. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside… Read more about this item