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    • Author/Creator:Slight, Julian, author.
    • Title:A narrative of the loss of the Royal George, at Spithead, August, 1782 : Tracey's attempt to raise her in 1783 : her demolition and removal by Major-General Pasley's operations in 1839-40-41-42 & 43 : including a statement of her sinking / written by her then flag-lieutenant, the late Admiral Sir C.P.H. Durham, G.C.B, recently commander-in-chief, at Portsmouth.
    • Edition:Eighth edition.
    • Publication:Portsea : Printed & published by S. Horsey, Sen., 43, Queen Street, 1848.
    • Manufacture: Portsea : S. Horsey, Son, printer, Queen Street.
    • Physical Description:178 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 11 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: 64 P853 848
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Notes:With a newspaper clipping of the poem "From the Golden Books. On the loss of the "Royal George" (Cowper)" laid in.
        Gilt lettered quarter black cloth over wooden boards; bound in the "Wood of the Wreck"; all edges gilt. For further information, consult library staff.
      • Provenance:Contact Editions; August 2020.
        With ownership statement on front pastedown: W.J. Corb[er?], 8th May, 1854, Balbriggan, Co. Dunb. Ir. Also with bookseller's paper stamp, illustrated with a portrait of a man in Elizabethan dress with the words "Scot: Proc: Reg:" under the image, on front and rear pastedowns: Frank Murray, bookseller, Moray House, Derby.
       
    • Notes:Preface signed: "J.S., Marlborough Row, Portsea."
      National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, does not describe this edition, but does describe earlier editions, and attributes them to Julian Slight.
      Above edition statement on title page: "Bound in the wood of the wreck."
      Dedication to Sir Edward Codrington, originally published with the second edition, on pages [3] and [4].
      Folded frontispiece plate depicts the sinking of the Royal George and is signed: "London, J. & F. Harwood, W. Fenchurch St. Feby. 2, 1842".
      Signatures: 1⁶ 2-3⁴ 5⁶ 6-7⁴ 8⁶ 9-10⁴ 11⁶ 12-21⁴ 22²
      "Lines on receiving a piece of the wreck of the Royal George," signed and dated "W.H. London, Nov. 1840," on recto of final unnumbered leaf; verso is blank.
      Issued in wooden boards, ostensibly from the ship.
    • Format:Book
    • References:National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, 0607131
    • Subjects:Royal George (Ship)
      Royal George (Ship)
      Shipwrecks--England--Portsmouth.
      Ships, Wooden.
      Ships, Wooden.
      Shipwrecks.
      England--Portsmouth.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Murray, Frank (Printer), bookseller.
    • Genre/Form:Booksellers' tickets.
      Ships--British.
    • Also listed under:Durham, Philip, 1763-1845.
      Horsey, Samuel, active 1823-1847, publisher, printer.
      England--Portsea ,