Folio Society Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Dana First Edition 1986.A personal narrative of life at sea by Richard Dana,Jr.,introduction by Mervyn Horder, drawings by Ian Ribbons. 2228x159x22mm. Type: Monophoto Bembo, photoset by Tradespools, printed in brown by Butler and Tanner. Bound by Butler and Tanner in full dark brown clothwith an oval paper cover-label printed in brown; endleaves with a ship in brown. Pale brown slip case. There are 29 small drawings by Ribbons, as well as the illustrations on the front board and the frontispiece. The text was first published in New York in 1840, and the appendix, containing the author's later reflections, appeared in 1876.