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(Bounty Mutiny). Murray, Thomas Boyles, Rev. PITCAIRN; THE ISLAND, THE PEOPLE, AND THE PASTOR; TO WHICH IS ADDED AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION OF NORFOLK ISLAND. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1857. 17th edition. Blind-stamped cloth, 386 pp., 16 full-page plates. Ex libris with spine markings and minor wear, else very good.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1860. 414 pp, tinted end-papers, 18 b&w engraved plates, minor wear to top of spine, else fine copy in gold-blocked, illustrated, green, cloth boards.. Great gold-blocked "Norfolk Island type" pine on spine. 12th edition.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1860]. [2], 414pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and a further 17 engraved plates. Contemporary Glasgow Academy prize binding, gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Rubbed, lettering-piece chipped. Marbled endpapers, prize-plate to FEP. Church of England clergyman, and prebendary of St. Paul's, Thomas Boyles Murray's (1798-1860) authoritative account of the Pitcairn islands and its inhabitants, the final edition to be published in his lifetime; with an account of the voyage of the Bounty, and the mutiny and its consequences. . Twelfth edition. 8vo.

London: printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [...], 1856. Small 8vo. pp. 354 + 15 wood-engraved plates. Some light staining. Brown publisher’s cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, recased preserving original spine, end-papers etc. Bookseller’s ticket and stamp of W. Simpson, Brighton, and contemporary gift/ownership inscriptions dated 1856. The sixth edition of Murray’s popular and influential book on the Mutiny on the Bounty and the settlement of Pitcairn in its aftermath contains a record of births, deaths and marriages on the island and a table of all ships which called there, from the arrival of the Topaz in 1808. A preface dated August 1856 brings events completely up-to-date, with an account of the proposed abandonment of Pitcairn in favour of Norfolk Island (which had in fact taken place in May-June that year). The Pitcairners began to return just eighteen months later. Book

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., 1860. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, pp. 414; engraved frontispiece, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; mild dampstaining, front free endpaper reinserted, rear free endpaper excised, spine ends cracked, else very good in original terracotta cloth gilt.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., 1860. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, [2], xiv, [15]-414, [4] ads; engraved frontis, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and gilt vignette of a ship on the upper cover.