12mo. 72pp. With 22 engravings in the text. Original publisher's pictorial buff paper boards. Rubbed and marked, loss to spine panel, upper board working loose. Early ink ownership inscription to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting.

An enlarged edition, in original unsophisticated state, of a series of accounts, intended for a juvenile readership, of infamous shipwrecks; including, the French frigate Medusa in 1816, the Proserpine in 1799, and the sloop Betsy in 1756.