"Lord Anson ... appears to have entrusted to Robins for revision the account of the voyage which had been compiled from the journals by ... Richard Walter. There has been considerable dispute as to whether Robins or Walter wrote the book ... It seems ...
Publisher:
T. Osborne [etc.],
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762 and Robins, Benjamin, 1707-1751
A voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL,I,II,III,IV. By George Anson, Esq; commander in chief of a squadron of his majesty's ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. / Compiled from papers and other materials of the right honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M.A. chaplain of his majesty's ship the Centurion, in that expedition ...
Description:
"Directions to the bookbinder" ... " : p. [2]-[3] at end.
Publisher:
Printed for the author; by John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street.,
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson,--Baron,--1697-1762, Centurion (Ship), and Robins, Benjamin, 1707-1751