Vol. I. pp. vi + (ii) + 310.
Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 362 + (2).
Vol. III. pp. (iv) + 332.
Paper boards (half cloth), paper label. White end-papers. Also issued in ribbed maroon cloth, gilt. Yellow end-papers.
There is no contents list to Volume I. The complete contents are: Diary on the Continent—The Monk of Seville (a play)—S.W. and by W. ¾ W.—Ill-Will (a charade)—The Sky-Blue Domino—Modern Town Houses—The Way to be Happy—How to Write a Fashionable Novel—How to Write a Book of Travels—How to Write a Romance—The Legend of the Bell Rock—Moonshine.
Note—This book was published on December 1, 1840. Of the contents the “Diary on the Continent” appeared serially in the “Metropolitan Magazine” (see above, Diary of a Blasé, 1836), and the shorter pieces partly in the same journal, partly in the “New Monthly,” and one (“Moonshine”) in The Keepsake (see above, Stories of the Sea, 1836).
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MASTERMAN READY or The Wreck of the Pacific. Written for Young People. By Captain Marryat. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1841 (Vol. I.), 1842 (Vols. II. and III.). 3 vols. in all. Fcap. 8vo (4¼ × 6¾).
Vol. I. pp. viii + 287 + (1). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp., dated February, 1841, bound in at end.
Vol. II. pp. (iv) + 269 + (3). Publishers' catalogue, 16 pp. (maybe two catalogues each of 16 pp.), dated April, 1842, bound in at end or, in some cases, after first front end-paper.