Item details: Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor; with a short account of the Mutiny of the Bounty [...] Sixth edition.
£ 125.00
Murray, Rev. Thomas Boyles:
Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor; with a short account of the Mutiny of the Bounty [...] Sixth edition.
Imprint: London: printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [...], 1856 Binding:
Hardback
Small 8vo. pp. 354 + 15 wood-engraved plates. Some light staining. Brown publisher’s cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, recased preserving original spine, end-papers etc. Bookseller’s ticket and stamp of W. Simpson, Brighton, and contemporary gift/ownership inscriptions dated 1856.
The sixth edition of Murray’s popular and influential book on the Mutiny on the Bounty and the settlement of Pitcairn in its aftermath contains a record of births, deaths and marriages on the island and a table of all ships which called there, from the arrival of the Topaz in 1808. A preface dated August 1856 brings events completely up-to-date, with an account of the proposed abandonment of Pitcairn in favour of Norfolk Island (which had in fact taken place in May-June that year). The Pitcairners began to return just eighteen months later.
