Narratives of Peril and Suffering (2 volumes)

Richard Alfred Davenport

London : Thomas Tegg, 1840

[Fine Bindings - Tales of Escape: A Collection of Tales of adventures, exiles, captivity and freedom] 2 volume set. Handsomely bound in 3/4 crimson, straight-grained morocco. Red linen boards.  Gilt spines.  Top edges gilt.  The frontisp. in v.1 of Marie Caroline, duchesse de Berri, v.2 Charles Edward Stuart.  Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. vi [i] 424; iv, 459 pp.  Lines from Shakespeare's Othello on title page, "Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances,Of moving accidents by flood and field;Of hairbreadth scapes i' the' imminent deadly breach;Of being taken by the insolent foeAnd sold to slavery."