Biographia navalis; or, Impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of officers of the navy of Great Britain, from the year 1660 to the present time; drawn from the most authentic sources, and disposed in a chronological arrangement. By John Charnock, Esq. With portraits, and other engravings, By Bartolozzi, &c. In four volumes. ...
John Charnock (1756 - 1807)
Category
Books
Date
1794
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3231141
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v., plates : ports. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vols. 1-4 only. Old Felbrigg shelfmarks: [in pencil at front] G4 G3 ; [in pencil at rear] J4[?]. Provenance: armorial bookplate, lettered "William Lukin" [i.e. Vice-Admiral William Lukin, later William Lukin Windham (1768 –1833)]. Inscribed on v.1 endpaper: "Fuit e libris Gul: Windham" [i.e. probably William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Binding: late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century calf; gilt roll borders; gilt tooled spines and board edges; gilt lettered & numbered spine labels: Biographia Navalis ...
Makers and roles
John Charnock (1756 - 1807)