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• Author/Creator:Matthews, John, lieutenant in the Royal Navy, author, illustrator, publisher.
  
• Title:Twenty-one plans, with explanations of different actions in the West Indies, during the late war / by an officer of the Royal Navy, who was present.
  
• Publication:Chester : Printed by J. Fletcher, for the author, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
  
• Physical Description:24 pages, [21] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: E271 .M38 1784
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:SML, Franklin Collection, Room 230 (Non-Circulating)
    
    
  • Call Number: 784 M43
    
  • Status:No information available 

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary tan half calf and marbled boards. Armorial bookplate: Charles Henry Parry.
  
• Notes:Dedication signed: John Matthews.
  Plans delineated by John Matthews; and engraved by John Hunter.
  Battles of Granada, July 6, 1779 (plates [1-5]); St. Christopher, July 22, 1779 (plate [6]); Martinique, April 29, 1781 (plates [7-9]); St. Christopher, January 25-26, 1782 (plates [10-12]); and Dominica, April 9 and 12, 1782 (plates [13-21]).
  
• Format:Book
• References:Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 46887
  English short title catalogue, T100566
  
• Subjects:United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Naval operations--Early works to 1800.
  West Indies--History--Early works to 1800.
  Great Britain. Navy--History--18th century--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1784.
  Chester--Imprints--Specimens--1784.
  Parry, Charles Henry--Bookplate.
  
• Genre/Form:Maps.
  Engravings--Hand-colored--1784.
  Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
  
• Also listed under:Hunter, John, 1737-1821, engraver.
  Fletcher, John, 1756-1835, printer.
  Great Britain--England--Chester.