A short Account of Vessels used in the British Service.…

A short Account of Vessels used in the British Service. by ‘A LADY’, [WALKER, T. I., illustrator]. < >
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~ A short Account of Vessels used in the British Service. London: J. Moyes [for R. Ackerman], 1833.

Oblong 8vo (137 × 180 mm), pp. 6, [26], plus 23 lithographed plates (two, of flags, hand coloured). Plates somewhat spotted, light old waterstain to outer margin. Original cloth backed drab boards, lithographed upper cover. Rubbed and slightly soiled. Early inscription, perhaps a presentation, to front pastedown: ‘Her Royal Highness Princess Wilhelm of Prussia geb. Augusta Herzogin von W...’

Sole edition, a very rare illustrated record of British ships, commercial and naval, by ‘A Lady’, probably an amateur lithographer and the ‘T.I. Walker’ whose name appears on some of the plates (which were all printed by C. Hullmandel). Worldcat: State Library NSW and Canadian War Museum only. No copies located in British libraries. Walker not mentioned by Twyman in Early Lithographed Books.

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