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GROCOTT,TERENCE: : SHIPWRECKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY & NAPOLEONIC ERAS.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.CHATHAM PUBLISHING,1997.

ISBN 1861760302.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,signed,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but author's blue ink dedication,signature and date: 'To Keith Terence G. A. Grocott 18th June 1999' to front free endpaper and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, 3/4 wrap-around colour pictorial painting artwork detail illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some minor,superficial abrasion/indented spots - but without penetration and without affecting the bds beneath.Top edges slightly dust-soiled and slightly aged/ tanned but generaly free of foxing/spotting,fore-edges much less aged and brighter and cleaner - also with merest hint of foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no foxing/spotting to text body, no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and minimally and minutely foxed/spotted plain white eps - author's signature+dedication excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xvipp+ 2-430pp [paginated] includes a preface,an introduction,Pts 1-3,notes,appendices (A-H),a 4pp glossary,a 2pp bibliography and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,dedication to its verso, contents list/table with acknowledgements+ abbreviations to its verso and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. This book is a chronicle of shipping disasters during the last great war of the age of sail,based almost exclusively on contemporaneous publications,and reporting of the time.Listed are some fifteen hundred ships,vessels naval and mercantile,of many nations whose tribulations were covered in the national and local newspapers as well as the specialist press like the 'Naval Chronicle'. These reports run the whole gamut of maritime tragedies - the bizarre,curious and quirky,as well as the familiar - and in all their inconsequential detail.Alongside stories of daring rescues and astoubding ordeals will be found strange facts,like the fate of the oldest Freemason in Britain; unlikely events such as the flogging round the fleet which hurt the spectators more than the punished; examples of the casual cruelty of the age,like the seamen marooned on buoys in the depth of winter by an irate press gang; and by many a horrifying tale of hardship and death, perhaps none more so than that of the captain trapped on a beach beneth the cargo of his wrecked ship awaiting inevitable slow death as the tide came in.Through the medium of the reporting of the time,what is here presented is a truly contemporary perspective on events,in itself a fascinating revelation of the mores and attitudes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Given the sheer number of craft lost at sea,it cannot be entirely exhaustive,but no other book contains so much non-technical information on the maritime diasters of the period 1793-1815,so 'Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras is sure to become the standard work on the subject. The author,a retired civil servant,spent seven years researching this book,a lifelong ambition,which involved reading every copy of 'The Times','Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury','Plymouth and Dock Telegraph' and the 'Annual Registers' for the years 1793-1815.This is his first published work and uncommon to find SIGNED examples. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in 2016 too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insurd shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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