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Maritime.- [Falconer (William)] The Shipwreck. A Poem. In three Cantos. By a Sailor, first edition, half-title, engraved folding frontispiece depicting fully-rigged merchant ship, engraved folding map, light browning to half-title and final p., a crisp copy otherwise, later boards, bumping to spine tips and corners, 4to, for the Author, 1762.

⁂ The rare first edition of the poem best-associated with Falconer. We can trace no complete copy at auction since 1982.

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Maritime.- [Falconer (William)] The Shipwreck. A Poem. In three Cantos. By a Sailor, first edition, half-title, engraved folding frontispiece depicting fully-rigged merchant ship, engraved folding map, light browning to half-title and final p., a crisp copy otherwise, later boards, bumping to spine tips and corners, 4to, for the Author, 1762.

⁂ The rare first edition of the poem best-associated with Falconer. We can trace no complete copy at auction since 1982.

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