Dreadful wreck of the brig St. Lawrence, from Quebec to New-York, 1780, which struck on an island of ice, near the Gulph of St. Lawrence
Subtitle: including the melancholy fate of some of the crew, who were frozen to death, and the perilous situation and extreme hardships of the survivors, on an unknown and dreary shore, particularly of William Prenties, Esq. ensign of the 84th regiment of foot, by whose enterprising and active spirit, his own, and the preservation of three of his companions, was effected in a crazy boat
Publisher: Printed for Thomas Tegg ...
Published: 1808
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Description and travel; Naufrages; Descriptions et voyages; Travel
Notes: Imprint date given in NUC: [1820]. Thomas Tegg had offices at 111 Cheapside (the address given in the imprint) from 1800-1824, but Thomas Plummer, of Seething Lane, who is mentioned in the colophon as the printer of the work, had offices at that location only between 1799 and 1815--Cf. Maxted, I. The London book trades, 1775-1800. This information, combined with the watermark dates on paper in one of the National Library of Canada copies ("1808" in the first gathering, and "1807" in the second), gives as a possible imprint the range "1808-1815."

A chap-book ed. of S.W. Prenties' Narrative of a shipwreck on the island of Cape Breton, in a voyage from Quebec, 1780 (London : [s.n.], 1782). Cf. NUC.

Signatures: A-B⁶.

Includes bibliographical references (NUC pre-1956, v. 148, pages 549; TPL 544).