The Naval History Of Great Britain From the Year MDCCLXXXII [1783]-MDCCCXXII [1822] By Edward Pelham Brenton, Esq. Captain In The Royal Navy. [First Edition ~ Full Calf Leather Binding] Edward Pelham Brenton Fine Binding

London: Printed by JF Dove, Published by C Rice, 1823-25, FIRST Edition. Full calf leather binding, complete in five volumes. Gilt decorated spine with black and green twin labels with gilt titles, five raised bands, lavish gilt decoration to the compartments, polished calf boards with gilt centre tool and gilt scroll, marbled paper paste downs and end papers, deckled page edges. Wormed to the end paper, frontispiece portrait, title and first 6 pages of the List of Subscribers of Vol V. Frontispiece portrait to each volume, included in the portrait count below. Pagination: Vol. I - xxvii, [i], 505pp, Errata slip, [1]pp, 2 portraits, 1 Map of Toulon, and 3 Engraved Plates. Vol. II - xv, [i], 566pp, Errata, [2]pp, 2 portraits, 3 Maps/Charts of Larboard Line Formation, Bequis Bay, and Lord Nelson's Attack at Copenhagen, 1 folding chart of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty, and 2 Engraved Plates. Vol. III - xxi, [i], 531pp, Table of Commanders in Chief, Errata, and Directions to the Binder [5]pp, 4 portraits, 1 Maps / Chart of Sir Jame Saumarez Attack in Algeziras Bay, a large folding plate of View of the British and Combined Fleets (Trafalgar), 1 Facsimile of Nelson's handwriting, and 2 Engraved Plates. Vol. IV - x, 576pp, 2 portraits, 3 Maps/Charts of Plan of the City and Port of Copenhagen, Chart of the River Schmeldt, and The Harbour of Cadiz, and 1 Engraved Plate. Vol. V - [xiv, List of Subscribers), xiii, [i], 483pp, Errata, [1]pp, 3 portraits, 1 Maps/Charts of Attack of Algiers, and 1 Engraved Plate. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates, gilt wolf's head (Earl of Chester?) to the boards. Approximately 8 ½ inches (22cm) tall. Condition Report Externally Spine - good condition - gilt titles and volume numbers on twin black and light green labels, four raised gilt bands, compartments with gilt decoration, worn and rubbed to some of the compartments and to the top and base of the spine. Joints - good condition - rubbed and worn, some cracks starting but sound to the hinges. Corners - good condition - rubbed and worn. Boards - good condition - polished calf boards with gilt wolf's head . Page edges - good condition - top edges darkened, all tanned. Binding - good condition - attractive. See above and photos. Internally Hinges - good condition - sound. Paste downs - good condition - marbled paper, worming to Vol V. End papers - good condition - marbled paper, subsequently tanned, worming to Vol V. Title - good condition - tanned with some foxing, worming to Vol V. Pages - good condition - with 13 portraits, many with offsetting to the opposite page, 9 maps / charts / plans many of which are folding, and 9 Engraved plates and 1 facsimile, pages are tanned and foxed throughout mostly to the plates, worming to the first 6 pages Vol V and very small worming to the bottom margins of the folding plate (Attack of Algiers) and subsequent page and plate of the Viscount of Exmouth to Vol V, creased to the edges of the first few pages and frontispiece of Vol II. See photos.