Two years before the mast
Subtitle: a personal narrative of life at sea.
Contributors: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Harpers' family library ;; no. CVI; Harper's family library ;; no. 106.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1840
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Voyages and travels.; Seafaring life.
Other titles: Life before the mast.
Notes: BAL 4434.
Published anonymously, but for the author's initials on p. 5.
First ed. First printing, with binding B. Cf. BAL.
"It has been asserted, and generally accepted, that there were two printings dated 1840; and that the first of these may be identified by the presence of the dot over the 'i' in the word 'in,' first line of the copyright notice; and, by the unbroken running head on p. 9"--BAL, which also describes 2 bindings for this ed.: binding A (black cloth, stamped in gold) and binding B (tan muslin, stamped in black), of which there are 3 states.
Series statement also appears as: Family library ; no. CVI.
LC copy is copyright deposit copy, rebound, with loss of original covers, if they were present as deposited, so that state of binding cannot be determined.