Maggs Bros.

With the Assistance of Lieutenant Lawford Miles, R.N. Embellished with Eight Highly-finished, Coloured, Engraved Views of Shipping, by W. Knell, Besides Fourteen Coloured Illustrations of the Flags, Pendants, and Ensigns, as Worn by Her Majesty’s Ships and Vessels in Commission.

First edition. Eight coloured aquatints, fourteen hand-coloured illustrations of flags in the text. Browning, slightly shaken, a good copy in the original burgundy leather-backed greyish-green cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed, rebacked with the majority of the original spine laid down. Plates lightly foxed. Small library stamp to title-page. xiv, 184, 16pp. (publisher’s advertisements). London, M.A. Nattali, 1844.