Hervey (Frederic)

The Naval History of Great Britain…, 5 vol., vol. I title page dated 1780, the remainder dated 1779, 5 engraved frontispieces (one folding), 54 plates (8 folding), vol. I with list of subscribers, occasional loss or tears, tear to vol. 4 map, intermittent heavy spotting and offsetting, 8vo, contemporary calf, morocco title labels to spines, worn with some loss and cracking to spines, William Adlard (5)

*** ‘The work was published in sixty sixpenny numbers from 1 May 1779, according to an advertisement.’ [ESTC T155103]