THE WOODEN WORLD
by Ward, Edward
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Edwin Chappell, 1929. Reprint Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Occasional Publications, No.II for The Society for Nautical Research. 99 pgs.with decorative chapter headings.Reprinted from the fifth edition of 1751 with a forward from Naval Historian, Geoffrey Callender. Blue cloth with gilt titles to front cover. Name to front endpaper dated 1930. "Dissected in the Character of A Ship of War as also The Characters of all the Officers, from the Captain to the Common Sailor." Ned Ward (1667 - 1731) also known as Edward Ward, was a satirical writer and publican in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century based in London. He was also an innkeeper where he encountered all nautical disciplines and documented their tales of the sea with satire.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale Cournoyer Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7120
- Title
- THE WOODEN WORLD
- Author
- Ward, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edwin Chappell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Sailors Mariners Ships Crew Early Voyages Exploration Naval History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.