The Book Shed

slight slant to book, corners bumped, offsetting to eps and preliminaries with soiling to frontis, dampstaining to tops of pages throughout book not affecting text. A fictional account of the life of a 19th century fisherman, presented as a biographical memoir. Reynolds attempted to tell the "story in a plain, straight-forward style, throwing in to the narrative such statistical and explanatory remarks as will enable my readers to understand something of the nature and importance of our fisheries as one of the great industrial pursuits of New England. " 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hard Cover.