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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 [Barker, Matthew Henry]. Illustrated by George Cruikshank
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Robins, 1826. First edition.. 4to. Red half-calf, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Yellow coated end papers. All edges gilt. 12 plates by George Cruikshank. Calf rubbed at joints and edges, some offsetting of plates as usual, a clean very good copy. Some text leaves are misbound: pages 161-168 are bound in after page 176. The book is complete, with nothing missing. Unusually, the plates in this copy are not coloured. Laid in is a 6-page list of a Centenary exhibition of the Royal Naval College, published by Woodlands Art Gallery, 1973.
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- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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- 57089
- Title
- 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.
- Author
- [Barker, Matthew Henry]. Illustrated by George Cruikshank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Robins, 1826. First edition.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian;
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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