Blanckley, Thomas Riley, A naval expositor , MDCCL [1750]
- Title(s):
- A naval expositor : shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea : also all species that are received into the magazines, and on what services they are used and issued : together with the titles of all the inferior officers belonging to a ship, with an abridgment of their respective duties / by Thomas Riley Blanckley.
- Published/Created:
- London : Printed by E. Owen, in Warwick Lane, and engraved by Paul Fourdrinier at Charing Cross, MDCCL [1750]
- Physical Description:
- [8], 191, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsV23 .B53 1750Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/6571717
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- An illustrated lexicon, arranged alphabetically. Entry words, some accompanied by illustrations, are printed by copperplate engraving in the left-hand margin. Definitions, on the remainder of the page, are printed in letterpress.
Title page engraved.
Initial; printed marginalia.
Final page is blank.
English short title catalogue, T131269
List of subscribers: p. [4]-[7].
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in half calf and marbled boards. - Subject Terms:
- Engraving -- Specimens -- 1750.Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Sea life.Naval art and science -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.Owen, E. -- Publisher.Shipping -- Dictionaries -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Dictionaries.
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