Marryat (Captain Frederick) Masterman Ready; or, The Wreck of the Pacific, 3 vol., first edition, frontispieces and illustrations, publishers advertisements, ink ownership inscription and bookplates, occasional spots and browning, original cloth, spines gilt, spine a little sunned, ends and corners bumped, 8vo, 1841-42
⁂ Marryat wrote the novel for his children who wanted a sequel to The Swiss Family Robinson, but he was forced to abandon a straight sequel because of "the ignorance or carelessness displayed in describing the vegetable and animal productions of the island on which the family had been wrecked" (Osborne).
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