Westward Ho! or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough . . .
Cambridge: Macmillan & Co., 1855. First Edition. Triple decker first edition, in publisher’s cloth, of one of the bestselling books of the nineteenth century, which is largely disfavored at present due to the virulent anti-Catholicism and racist depictions of South Americans.
Kingsley’s historical novel celebrates England’s victories over Spain in the Elizabethan era and follows an Elizabethan privateer, Amyas Preston, who set sail with Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, and other privateers to the so-called New World.
8vo. 3 vols. viii, 303pp., [1]; vi, 367pp.; vi, 373pp., [1], 16pp. (publisher’s catalogue with first issue misspelling on pg. 7). Parrish, pg. 26. Sadleir 1340. Very good in publisher’s blue cloth recased with original backstrip laid down, spines darkened, dampstain to lower board of vol. III, prior owner signatures to endpapers, contemporary bookseller ticket, some soiling to half title in vol. II, housed in a morocco clamshell box. Item #325
Price: $900.00