Elizabethan Sea-Dogs; A chronicle of Drake and his companions

New Haven; Toronto; London: Yale University Press; Glasgow, Brook & Co,; Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918. Author's Corrigenda Copy. Very good. Abraham Lincoln Edition. Volume 3 The Chronicles of America Series. Allen Johns, Editor. Gerhard R. Lomer and Charles W. Jeffreys, Assistant Editors.

Octavo : pp. one blank leaf, (vi) vii-xii, 252 : portrait frontis with captioned tissue guard : map : three further portraits with captioned tissue guards : 2 blank leaves : top edge gilt : fore edge untrimmed : original blue cloth boards : top board and spine illustrated in gilt and white and lettered in gilt : in pencil on ffep, "William Wood | Author's Corrigenda Copy | Quebec | 7/12/18" and with pencil notes on front pastedown, long list of corrections in pencil covering four pages at the end.

Top edge gilt dull, minor tide mark to tail of block. "William Charles Henry Wood, (7 June 1864 - 2 September 1947) was a Canadian historian, Scout leader and naturalist. He was born in Quebec City and served in the Royal Rifles of Canada from 1887 to the end of the World War I achieving the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was active in literary and history circles and served as President of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society. He was interested in nature conservation and advocated for bird sanctuaries in Labrador. He was also president of the scouts in Quebec in 1909. He was a prolific chronicler of Canadian history and wrote several books on the subject, most notably a five volume set on the history of Quebec entitled, The Storied Province of Quebec. He died in Quebec City in 1947 at the age of 83. Wood was buried in Mount Hermon Cemetery in Sillery." (Australia National Library website).

The long list of corrections concludes with the note "Sent to Robert Glasgow 2nd September 1918" with Wood's signature and Quebec address.