BAYNTUN, binder. RALFE, JAMES. 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 1816. London: Whitmore and Fenn 1820. 3 vols., 8vo, 246 x 158mm. (9 11/16 x 6 1/4 ins.), blue crushed levant morocco, covers with various gilt-ruled borders enclosing four small gilt- stamped sailing ship ornaments, spines gilt and gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk linings, vol. 1 with maroon levant morocco doublure SET WITH AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF NELSON, 80 x 63mm. (3 3/16 x 2 1/2 in.) within a gilt border, upper turn-in of each vol. stamp-signed "Bayntun, binder. Bath. England", g.e., joints dry and slightly flaking, some browning, occasional foxing, some offsetting to plates, a few imprints of plates cropped. 2-page list of subscribers, 60 hand-colored aquatint plates by Sutherland, Havell and others (later coloring). Abbey Life 342. (3)

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BAYNTUN, binder. RALFE, JAMES. 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 1816. London: Whitmore and Fenn 1820. 3 vols., 8vo, 246 x 158mm. (9 11/16 x 6 1/4 ins.), blue crushed levant morocco, covers with various gilt-ruled borders enclosing four small gilt- stamped sailing ship ornaments, spines gilt and gilt-lettered, board edges and turn-ins gilt, blue watered silk linings, vol. 1 with maroon levant morocco doublure SET WITH AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF NELSON, 80 x 63mm. (3 3/16 x 2 1/2 in.) within a gilt border, upper turn-in of each vol. stamp-signed "Bayntun, binder. Bath. England", g.e., joints dry and slightly flaking, some browning, occasional foxing, some offsetting to plates, a few imprints of plates cropped. 2-page list of subscribers, 60 hand-colored aquatint plates by Sutherland, Havell and others (later coloring). Abbey Life 342. (3)