Piratical barbarity : or The female captive : Comprising the particulars of the capture of the English sloop Eliza-Ann, on her passage from St. Johns to Antigua, & the horrid massacre of the unfortunate crew by the pirates, March 12th, 1825, and of the unparalleled suffering of Miss Lucretia Parker, a passenger on board said sloop--who after being retained a prisoner 11 days by the pirates, was miraculously delivered from their cruel hands : Now reprinted with illustrations by Herb Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Lucretia, author.

Contributor:

Roth, Herb, 1887-1953, illustrator.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pirates.

Eliza Ann (Ship).

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)

Physical Description:

47 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

New Rochelle, N.Y. : Walpole Printing Office

Other Title:

Female captive

Place of Publication:

[New Rochelle, N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, Mcmxxx [1930].

Notes:

Signed: Lucretia Parker.

"Printer's note: this narrative is reprinted from a pamphlet of about a hundred years ago. The original has not in every case been followed explicitly ... Five hundred and twenty-five copies printed at the Walpole Printing Office, New Rochelle. Of these, five hundred are for sale by Random House New York" --Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 399 (page 111)

OCLC:

1105752267