192pp, with black and white plate illustrations (including frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards; red design on front, gilt titles on spine. Sun faded spine, bumped ends. Text block edges tanning. One plate laid-in, outer edge chipped. Presentation plate on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Endeavours to reconstruct a phase of the history of piracy which must make a special appeal to the peoples of the English-speaking races, dealing with pirates who came from English, Scotch and Welsh towns and villages. 8vo.
