Description
First edition of Shipwreck and Death of Lord Royston, published by Thomas Tegg circa 1808.
Octavo, 28pp. 13 additional blank leaves bound in at rear. Bound in three-quarter leather with cloth covered boards. Title in gilt on spine. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Solid text block, faint offsetting to endpapers, a near fine example. Features a fold-out frontispiece depicting “The Melancholy Shipwreck & death of Lord Royston & Suit near Memel.”
This work is one of forty chapbooks published by Thomas Tegg from 1805 to 1809. All of the small volumes contain narratives of captivity and shipwrecks that took place between 1678 and 1809.
From the collection of Charles Fleishmann III, with his bookplate on the front endpaper. Fleishmann III was a lifelong traveler, collector, and philanthropist who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Hindman Auctions, November 2023)
