[THORNTON, Alfred] The Adventures of a Post Captain: by a Naval Officer, London: J. Johnstone, [1817], 8°, hand-coloured engraved title and 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Charles Williams (light offsetting to text), 19th-century blue morocco gilt by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments (joints rubbed), t.e.g., armorial bookplate of John Wanamaker. [Abbey Life 347; Hardie p. 158; Tooley pp. 259-61] With John Mitford's The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy (London, 1819). (2)