The Naval Chronology Of Great Britain; Or, An Historical Account Of Naval And Maritime Events, From The Commencement of the War in 1803, to the end of the Year 1810: Also, Particulars Of The Most Important Courts Martial, Votes Of Parliament, Lists Of The Flag Officers In Commission, And Of Promotions For Each Year: The Whole forming a complete naval history of the above Period

London: Whitmore And Fenn, 1820. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown calf and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Very good. 3 vols. 288, 284, 320 pages. 25.1 x 17.2 cm. Hand colored portrait frontispiece of the Prince Regent (vol. 1), 2 aquatint frontispieces of naval monuments (vols. 2 & 3). and 57 very fine hand colored aquatint plates by T. Sutherland, F. C. Lewis, D. Havell and others after T. Whitcombe, J. Beresford, W. A. Armstrong, J. Gore, W. Hill and others, list of subscribers in first volume, list if plates in third volume. HRH George Augustus Frederic, Prince Regent, was the dedicatee of the work and heads the list of subscribers. The exceptionally fine plates were based on drawings made by officers who participated in the the actions. The aquatints were available both uncolored and colored by hand. The present copy has a number of plates with headlines and captions printed in blue, which Abbey cites as a requirement for "genuine coloured copies.” Interior contents clean with some slight offsetting of plates to text. Small brown leather armorial bookplate of Valentine Hollingsworth lettered in gilt inside front cover of all three volumes. Raised bands. maroon leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Covers slightly rubbed. Rebacked. ABBEY LIFE. 342 SABIN 67602. TOOLEY 392.