MURRAY, Thomas Boyles.
Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island … London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1860].
8vo, pp. [2], xiv, [15]-414, [4, advertisements]; with engraved frontispiece portrait, sixteen black and white plates including one map and one folding facsimile, a few small engraved illustrations in text; occasional light spotting and marking within, small tears to two pages; a good copy bound in brown cloth, embossed decorative borders to covers, gilt ship vignette to upper cover, gilt lettering and vignettes to spine; slight rubbing to boards, small tears to head and foot of spine, spine sunned; inscription of W.F. Browell on front pastedown, Trickett & Son binder’s ticket on rear pastedown.
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Pitcairn: the Island, the People, and the Pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island …
Twelfth edition (first edition published in 1853). ‘Rev. Murray, who was the secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, here recounts the voyages of the Bounty, the mutiny, Captain Bligh’s voyage in an open boat, the voyage of the Pandora, and includes material on Peter Heywood, as well as describing Pitcairn and its inhabitants’ (Hill). This edition includes a ten-page author preface dated 1860 comprising updates to the text and extracts of correspondence.
Hill, The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages, p. 422