[Travel & Exploration] Johnson, Captain Charles. A General History of the Pyrates...

London: Printed for, and Sold by T. Woodward, 1726-(28). In two volumes. The Fourth Edition. 8vo. (xx), 17-443; (xiv), 413, (3, ads) pp. (some erratic pagination). Illustrated with one folding engraved map and two (of three) engraved plates, including: A New and Exact Map of Guinea, Blackbeard the Pirate, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read; without folding plate depicting Captain Roberts and two of his ships. Three-quarter crimson levant over marbled paper-covered boards, decorated in gilt, light wear to joints; top edges gilt, other edges trimmed; matching marbled endpapers; soiling and repairs to title-page of first volume; faint ownership signature on p. 17 in first volume, same signature at top of title-page in second volume; scattered soiling and dampstaining to text; bottom corner P2 in second volume repaired; old manuscript notes on verso of final text leaf in first volume; text in both volumes presumably sometime washed. From the library of Americana collector and bibliophile Amor L. Hollingsworth, and with his gilt armorial book-plate on front paste-down of each volume. Gosse, My Pirate Library, p. 47; ESTC T71966

Fourth edition of this influential work on pirates. First published in 1724, the authorship has been attributed to Daniel Defoe, but more recently ascribed to Nathaniel Mist, a sailor and publisher of the Weekly Journal.

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