Dispatches and Letters Relating to the Blockade of Brest, 1803-1805 [complete in 2 volumes]

Leyland, John (1858?-1924)

1899, First Edition. London : Printed for the Navy Records Society. Good copies both in contemporary white cloth boards, backed with black cloth, and both gilt-blocked. Boards dust-dulled and slightly edgeworn, with endbands rubbed. Vol. 2 hinges weak, with a crude repair to the rear. Text edges and prelims lightly foxed, with the interiors remaining otherwise tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved set overall. Provenance: presented by Sir William White's library to the Maude Morison History Seminar Library (Armstrong College, Newcastle). Item #470397

Series; Publications of the Navy Records Society ; v. 14, 21. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes : frontispiece (volume 1: portrait; volume 2: plan), maps, plans ; 25 cm. Notes; Published 1899-1902, originally scheduled for 1898 and 1901; slips recording delays tipped in before title pages. Includes index (volume 2). Subjects; Cornwallis, William, Sir (1744-1819). Blockade – France – Brest – 19th century – Sources. Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 – Naval operations, British – Sources. Brest (France) – History, Naval – 19th century – Sources. Great Britain – History, Naval – 19th century – Sources. 19th century. 18th century. 20th century (edition). Portraits. Frontispiece. Maps. Plans. Letters. Naval history. Sources.

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