Hardcover volume in 8vo, 20.4 x 13.7 cm, blue cloth with black pictorial stamping and white embossed lettering to front cover and spine, spine sunned, head and tail frayed.
Title-page: ❦❦❦ THE MEMOIRS AND | TRAVELS OF MAURITIUS | AUGUSTUS COUNT DE | BENYOWSKY ❦❦❦ | IN SIBERIA, KAMCHATKA, JAPAN, | THE LIUKIU ISLANDS AND FORMOSA | FROM THE TRANSLATION OF HIS | ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT (1741–1771), | BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON, F.R.S., 1790 | EDITED BY CAPTAIN | PASFIELD OLIVER | ILLUSTRATED | LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, | PATERNOSTER SQUARE. MDCCCXCVIII ||
Collation/Pagination: [1]7 2-258; blue advertisement sheet laid in. [1, 2] – serial h.t. “The Adventure Series” / advert. THE ADVENTURE SERIES. Illustrated. Popular Re-issue, large cr. 8vo, 3s. 6d. 8 titles, [3, 4] – t.p. / blank, [5] 6-9 contents, [10] blank, [11, 12] missing, [13] 14-52 introduction, 53-399, [400] colophon: THE GRESHAM PRESS, | URWIN BROTHERS, | WORKING IN LONDON. Total number of leaves 199; 398 pages; one leaf of the first gathering missing (pp. 11/12 list of illustrations. No illustrations in this volume.
Compared to another copy of the same edition, LIB-2701.2021, besides the binding: no list of illustrations, no illustrations, different colophon, different advertisement, slightly different h.t.
Contributors:
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin (London); Thomas Fisher Unwin (British, 1848 – 1935).
Author: Maurice Auguste count de Benyowsky [Мориц Август Бенёвский] (Polish-Slovak-Hungarian, 1746 –1786).
Editor: Samuel Pasfield Oliver (British, 1838 – 1907).
Translator: William Nicholson (British, 1753 – 1815).
Originally published in 1790, in London (I have not seen it anywhere) and in Dublin by P. Wogan [etc.], and in 1791 in French, in Paris by Buisson; see LIB-2742.2021.
For the 1904 edition, see LIB-2703.2021.
