London: Printed and Sold by Mary Hinde, (1772). The Fifth Edition. 12mo. (xiv), 126, (4, ads) pp.; lacking front free endpaper. Full contemporary sheepskin, ruled in blind, front and rear boards detached but holding, spine worn and split, extremities and boards scuffed; all edges trimmed; in quarter green morocco over green cloth slip case. Howes D-317; Ayer 68; Sabin 20015 (ascribing the date of 1759); Vail 612; Smith I, p. 529; see Field 426 and 427 (third and sixth editions)

Scarce fifth edition of this noted shipwreck and Indian captivity narrative.

Dickenson, a Quaker merchant, departed from Port Royal, Jamaica, in August 1696 with his family, along with noted Quaker missionary Robert Barrow and more than 20 other passengers. Bound for Philadelphia, a storm left their bark shipwrecked near present-day Jupiter Island, Florida. Captured by Native Americans, they were stripped of their remaining possessions, with survivors enduring an arduous journey by foot and canoe some 200 miles north to St. Augustine, where they arrived in starving and wretched condition. Taken in by the Spanish, once recovered the group was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, before eventually reaching Philadelphia.

The first edition, published in Philadelphia in 1699—the first book of general interest printed in that city—is a famous rarity of Americana, with only a handful of known copies. This was followed by the first English edition, printed in London the following year. Several 18th century editions, in both Great Britain and America followed. The 1772 date ascribed to this fifth edition is based on the publication date of one of the books advertised in the rear.