SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

[lludwig]

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

[ok-mrs-bee]

A simple question to get us going again.

# don't know the question number.

He is a clergyman under the patronage of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

a) the book
b) the clergyman

[noirtexas]

Rev. William Collins
Pride and Prejudice

[ok-mrs-bee]

You know you're right , Noir. Well done.

Have you got a question?

[noirtexas]

I'll come up with one.

[noirtexas]

643?

There were significant publishing difficulties prior to the issue of this personal account of James Cook's first voyage. Name the book and author.

[ksmrkt]

Thanks to noir and bee for posting questions!

#643

Maybe this?

Sydney Parkinson.
A Journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour, faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, draughtsman to Joseph Banks, Esq., on his late expedition with Dr. Solander, round the world; embellished with views and designs, delineated by the author, and engraved by capital artists.
London, 1773.

There was some dispute between Parkinson's brother and John Hawkesworth that caused a problem?

[noirtexas]

ksmrkt

That's it. Do you have a question?

[ksmrkt]

I do, but you will probably know it right away, as it is another question concerning Cook's first voyage.

#644:

What is the title, and the year of publication, for the first published account of Cook's first voyage?

( Interesting topic, by the way)

[noirtexas]

A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavor in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 and 1771; Undertaken in Pursuit of Natural Knowledge of the Royal Society. 1771

attributed to James Magra

[ksmrkt]

Definitely the one I had in mind, noir.

What I do not know is why it was "Surreptitiously edited and printed by Thomas Becket only two months after the expedition returned to England. " ( the quote is from [url http://]http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/special/cookmenu/cookcheck1.htm[/url] )

Guess I should read more about it.

[noirtexas]

645

I'll stick with the theme. This early sea travel narrative is not nearly as well known as the novel it inspired.

Name the book, author and novel.

[oldbookshopnj]

Going back to 642, Auden was the one I had in mind, but there might be other contenders. There are some quite expensive books with original lithographs.

[oldbookshopnj]

645.

" Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex"

Melville, "The Whale"

[noirtexas]

That was not the one I had in mind. And it's not Melville. Much earlier. But a great answer, nonetheless.

[oldbookshopnj]

645.

Rogers, "A Cruising Voyage Round the World"

Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe"