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[BARKER, Matthew Henry (1790-1846)]. Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. By an Old Sailor, London: James Robins, 1826. 4° (268 x 207mm). Hand-coloured etched frontispiece, wood-engraved title vignette and 11 hand-coloured plates by George Cruikshank, vignettes (some offsetting and spotting). 19th-century polished calf gilt by Riviere & Son, spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco lettering-piece (corners very lightly rubbed). Provenance: Sybil & Wallace Warner (bookplate). Abbey Scenery 226; Cohn 53; Hardie English Coloured Books p.201.
With Alfred Thornton's The Adventures of a Post Captain: By a Naval Officer (London, [1817], hand-coloured plates, contemporary half calf gilt). (2)
With Alfred Thornton's The Adventures of a Post Captain: By a Naval Officer (London, [1817], hand-coloured plates, contemporary half calf gilt). (2)
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