Full title: "Pictorial Chronicles of the mighty Deep; or, The Sea, its Ships and Sailors. Being a record form the Earliest Times to Our Own Day of the most Remarkable Maritime Adventures, Voyages, Discoveries, Conflicts, Deeds of Bravery and Danger, with Special Reference to the Exploits of our own Countrymen, and the Founding, Extension, and Development of the World-Wide British Empire. The Whole forming a valuable, Interesting, and Instructive Compendium." Collected and Edited by Francis Watt, M.A. Embellished with upwards of One Hundred excellent Woodcuts and a series of coloured plates. A compilation of texts on naval voyages, battles and adventures, from Classical times to the Arctic expeditions of the 1870s and 1880s. The texts are rewritten from sources including Dr Johnson's 'A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland'; the illustrations (anonymous) have been redrawn from sources ranging from newspaper reports to Gericault's Raft of the Medusa. Chromolithographed title page,