[HANWAY, JONAS]. Proposal for Country Naval free Schools to be built on Waste Lands, giving such effectual Instructions to Poor Boys, as may nurse them for The Sea Service, teaching them also to cultivate the Earth... And to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc... while good Regulations and Discipline, diffuse a moral & religious Oeconomy through the Land. [London, 1783]. Folio, half calf, rebacked, rubbed at edges; joints reinforced with tape, offsetting, one plate torn (repaired with tape). PRESENTATION COPY, with printed presentation slip signed by Newby and inscribed to Viscount Mount Stuart. 2 engraved titles and 9 engraved folding plates.

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[HANWAY, JONAS]. Proposal for Country Naval free Schools to be built on Waste Lands, giving such effectual Instructions to Poor Boys, as may nurse them for The Sea Service, teaching them also to cultivate the Earth... And to spin, knit, weave, make shoes, etc... while good Regulations and Discipline, diffuse a moral & religious Oeconomy through the Land. [London, 1783]. Folio, half calf, rebacked, rubbed at edges; joints reinforced with tape, offsetting, one plate torn (repaired with tape). PRESENTATION COPY, with printed presentation slip signed by Newby and inscribed to Viscount Mount Stuart. 2 engraved titles and 9 engraved folding plates.
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