Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

  PREFATORY NOTE

  TO

  PETER SIMPLE AND THE THREE CUTTERS

  From _Nodes Ambrosianae_:--

  _Shepherd_ [HOGG]. Did Marry yacht write _Peter Simple_? Peter Simplein his ain way's as gude's Parson Adams ... He that invented PeterSimple'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 _ThePirate_, containing a portrait of Marryat--Drawn by W. Behnes, engravedby H. Cook; and "illustrated with twenty splendid engravings fromdrawings by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A."

  Peter Simple