A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the 'Bounty', commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on board said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat ...
Dublin, H. Fitzpatrick, printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. McKenzie, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, R. McAllister and J. Rice, 1792 (first Irish edition, published in the same year as the London first edition).
Octavo, [xvi] (last blank), 376 pages (complete with the half-title) plus the frontispiece portrait of Bligh and the plate of 'Sections of the Bread Fruit'.
Contemporary full calf, relatively recently rebacked; covers a little worn and marked; light tidemark to the top margin of both plates, otherwise internally excellent, and worthy of a more sympathetic restoration.
This edition includes a revised version of Bligh's 1790 narrative of the mutiny. The front pastedown, flyleaf and the recto of the initial binder's blank are filled with the closely-written notes of a contemporary owner, ('J.B. Jan. 11, 1793'), who provides later details of the fate of the mutineers, with particular reference to the life of Fletcher Christian and John Adams on Pitcairn Island. These are transcribed from contemporary publications (chiefly from issues of 'Walker's Hibernian Magazine' and the 'Quarterly Review' between 1793 and 1814). Ferguson 127.
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