[LITERATURE] [NAVAL] THE POST-CAPTAIN; OR THE WOODEN WALLS WELL MANNED; COMPREHENDING A VIEW OF NAVAL SOCIETY AND MANNERS

Londoon: Thomas Tegg, 1808. Third Edition, Corrected. Half Leather. Good binding. 8vo.; in blue half-calf over marbled boards with raised bands and morocco labels; all edges marbled; viii, 232 pages, with frontispiece and vignette of a frigate on the title page; with an armorial bookplate on the pastedown; there are tide-lines from exposure to water to the first pages.~~Romantic naval fiction, featuring Captain Brilliant and his second lieutenant, Hurricane. Brilliant and Hurricane both marry and bring their wives along with them to the Chesapeake Bay. Good binding.