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The Pirate's Own Book

SKU: 1121017

By: Charles Ellms
477 Pages
Paperback

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The first edition of �The Pirates Own Book� was published in Boston Massachusetts in 1837, and during the next twenty-five years it was followed by at least eight other editions. The demand for a book on the subject must have been unusual, and although the number printed undoubtedly was large, at the present time it has become on of the rarities of pirate literature and is seldom found in good condition. Its black cloth covers will be loose in the binding or missing and its leaves will be dog-eared and worn by the generations of readers, young and old, who have viewed with eager interest the curious wood engravings that adorn its pages and been thrilled by its tales of looted shipping and bloody adventure. No other book preserves so extended an account of piracy, in ancient and modern times, in all parts of the world, and the awakened interest in the subject makes it desirable that a new edition should be placed in the hands of present-day readers. No attempt has been made to revise the text of the earlier editions or to add to the bulk of the material. �The Pirates Own Book� appeared in 1837 with a Boston imprint and an 1836 copyright date. The publisher was Samuel N. Dickinson, who large printing establishment was located on Washington Street near the Old State House and who advertised in his �Boston Almanac� that his printing office has everything requisite for the execution of all kinds of printing the World ever saw.� The second edition was also printed in 1836, by Dickinson, with the imprint of Sanborn & Carter, a publishing house in Portland, Maine. Other editions soon followed: Philadelphia, 1939, 1941, and 1842; a Portland-Philadelphia edition without date; and Portland, Maine, 1855, 1856, and 1859, which seems to have been the last. The anonymous compiler of �The Pirates Own Book� was Charles Ellms, a Boston stationer who gave up trade and undertook the compiling of almanacs and books with popular titles.

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