Volume 1 — PREFATORY NOTE

TO

PETER SIMPLE AND THE THREE CUTTERS

From Nodes Ambrosianæ:—

Shepherd [HOGG]. Did Marry yacht write Peter Simple? Peter Simple in his ain way's as gude's Parson Adams … He that invented Peter Simple'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 The Pirate, containing a portrait of Marryat—Drawn by W. Behnes, engraved by H. Cook; and "illustrated with twenty splendid engravings from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A."

Peter Simple