Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Page 4
PREFATORY NOTE
TO
PETER SIMPLE AND THE THREE CUTTERS
From _Nodes Ambrosianae_:--
_Shepherd_ [HOGG]. Did Marry yacht write _Peter Simple_? Peter Simplein his ain way's as gude's Parson Adams ... He that invented PeterSimple's a Sea-Fieldin'.
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_Peter Simple_ is printed from the first edition, in three volumes.Saunders and Otley, 1834.
_The Three Cutters_ is printed from the first edition. Longman, Rees,Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1836.
_The Three Cutters_ was first published in one volume with _ThePirate_, containing a portrait of Marryat--Drawn by W. Behnes, engravedby H. Cook; and "illustrated with twenty splendid engravings fromdrawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A."
Peter Simple
