Poor Jack
By: by Captain Marryat ; with illustrations by Clarkson Stanfield.
Contributors: Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867.
Publisher: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1840
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
First sentence: I have every reason to believe that I was born in the year of our Lord 1786, for more than once I put the question to my father and he invariably made the same reply: “Why, Jack, you were launched a few months before the Druids were turned over to the Mêlpomene.”