PETER SIMPLE.; A Biographical Essay by Michael Sadleir.
London: Constable & Co., 1929. 1st edition thus. Limited to 750 cc. 2 volumes (lxii, [2], 360; xiii, [1], 379 pp). Frontis of Marryat after a portrait by John Simpson. 21 collotype plates of Etchings & Drawings by R. W. Buss. The drawings by Buss hitherto unpublished. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Dark maroon embossed bindings with gilt spine lettering. TEG. Dust jackets. NF (sq & tight)/Good (spine panel sunned/chipped/Vol I jacket split along front panel left vertical seam). Item #23027
This edition a modern facsimile of the 1837 Saunders & Otley "Illustrated Edition" [cf. Sadleir. 19th C. 1592a (Note ii)].
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