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Pitcairn: The Island, the People and the Pastor. To Which is Added a Short Notice of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island. Revised and Brought up to Date, Rev. Thomas Boyles Murray. Published by Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: R. Clay, Printer, Bread Street Hill. 12th Edition with Preface dated 1860; Sunday School Prize dated 1865 to front paste-down made out to *Georges Stoker dated 1865. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Pp., xvi,368. 17 plates plus frontis portrait of John Adams and including 1 folding plate with a facsimile of a handwritten signed prayer by John Adams. Blue boards with blind stamped decorative borders front and back and gilt design of the Bounty to front board and gilt titles and designs of **breadfruit to spine; yellow endpapers. Rubbing to boards and edges with fraying to head of spine; hinges cracked although all pages firmly attached. Contents are fine without markings, tears or folds.

*Bookplate award from Rathfarnham Sunday School presented to: George Stoker of Orwell Terrace, December, 1865. George Stoker (1854-1920) was younger brother of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula. They both lived for a time at Orwell Park, County of Dublin Ireland. George Stoker became a well-known surgeon, garnered many awards in his lifetime and was the originator and pioneer of the use of Oxygen.

**The Bounty's mission was to bring the breadfruit tree-a cheap and nutritious food source, from Tahiti to the West Indies to feed slaves on English sugar plantations.

Thomas Boyles Murray's Pitcairn is a classic mid-19th century history of the colony founded in Pitcairn's Island by the mutineers of the "Bounty". Murray provides details of the mutiny and the fate of the surviving mutineers in particular that of Alexander Smith (alias John Adams) whose religious conversion laid the foundations of what was seen as a highly-reputed Christian community. Murray's book was very popular and frequently reprinted; it was recently included as a primary document IN THE PITCAIRN ISLANDS SUPREME COURT Trials No 1-55/2003 BETWEEN THE QUEEN AND 7 NAMED ACCUSED Hearing: 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 November 2003 6 February 2004.

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(Bounty Mutiny). Murray, Thomas Boyles, Rev. PITCAIRN; THE ISLAND, THE PEOPLE, AND THE PASTOR; TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION OF NORFOLK ISLAND. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. 17th edition. Blind-stamped cloth, 386 pp., 16 full-page plates. Ex libris with spine markings and minor wear, else very good.
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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1860. 414 pp, tinted end-papers, 18 b&w engraved plates, minor wear to top of spine, else fine copy in gold-blocked, illustrated, green, cloth boards.. Great gold-blocked "Norfolk Island type" pine on spine. 12th edition.
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London: printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [...], 1856. Small 8vo. pp. 354 + 15 wood-engraved plates. Some light staining. Brown publisher’s cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, recased preserving original spine, end-papers etc. Bookseller’s ticket and stamp of W. Simpson, Brighton, and contemporary gift/ownership inscriptions dated 1856. The sixth edition of Murray’s popular and influential book on the Mutiny on the Bounty and the settlement of Pitcairn in its aftermath contains a record of births, deaths and marriages on the island and a table of all ships which called there, from the arrival of the Topaz in 1808. A preface dated August 1856 brings events completely up-to-date, with an account of the proposed abandonment of Pitcairn in favour of Norfolk Island (which had in fact taken place in May-June that year). The Pitcairners began to return just eighteen months later. Book
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., 1860. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, pp. 414; engraved frontispiece, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; mild dampstaining, front free endpaper reinserted, rear free endpaper excised, spine ends cracked, else very good in original terracotta cloth gilt.
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1860. To Which is Added A Short Notice of the Original Settlement and Present Condition of Norfolk Island. xiv, 414pp. Full calf, gilt. Frontis. portrait of John Adams and 17 plates. A fine polished calf binding with marbled end-papers and matching edges. Some rubbing. Five raised bands and embossed decoration with a front board gilt embossed dedication 'Premium Ingenii Artibus Liberalibus Feliciter Dediti in Academai Glasguensi' with a oval floral border. No inscriptions or bookplates. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. 12th edition. hard back. Fine. 12mo.
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., 1860. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, [2], xiv, [15]-414, [4] ads; engraved frontis, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and gilt vignette of a ship on the upper cover.
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