MILES, Edmund. An Epitome, Historical and Statistical, descriptive of the Royal Navy Service of England. By E.Miles, with the assistance of Lieutenant Lawford Miles. London: Charles Wood for Ackermann and Co., 1841.

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MILES, Edmund. An Epitome, Historical and Statistical, descriptive of the Royal Navy Service of England. By E.Miles, with the assistance of Lieutenant Lawford Miles. London: Charles Wood for Ackermann and Co., 1841.

8° (233 x 150mm.). 16pp. publisher's advertisments at end, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates by N.Fielding after W.Knell, 14 hand-coloured wood-engravings of flags on pp.172-6 (some general but mainly marginal browning of text). Later blue morocco gilt, t.e.g., by A.Taffin (neatly re-backed with old spine laid down). Provenance: Charles E.Dunlap (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION. Abbey Life 339; Tooley 329.