Greenwich Hospital, a series of naval sketches, descriptive of the life of a man-of-war's man.

by an old sailor. With illustrations by George Cruikshank by Matthew Henry Barker

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

London: published by James Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; and Joseph Robins, Jun. and Co. Lower Ormand Quay, Dublin, 1826. First edition; 4to, pp. 4 , 200; 12 engraved plates by Cruikshank, each in 2 states hand-colored and plain , plus other vignette illustrations in the text; later three-quarter blue morocco by Riviere and Son, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2, t.e.g.; extremities rubbed; the plain plates rather

• Binding: Leather

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