Cursory Suggestions on Naval Subjects, with the Outline of a Plan for Raising Seamen for His Majesty's Fleets in a Future War, by Ballot

London: Printed for the author, and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington, 1822. First Edition. Octavo in fours (20cm). Rebound in black cloth, titled on spine in gilt; plain endpapers; [ii], 97, [1]pp; with folding advertisement for a Quarterly Muster, Pay, and Victualing Book sold by Burgess, Hunt, and Carter, Ramsgate. Errata slip laid down on final page. Annotated throughout in pencil. A sturdy copy, rebound, with minor soiling to intial and final leaves, tear in folding table neatly mended: Good or better. Naval impressment was standard pratice in Britain from the mid-seventeenth century until the end of the Napoleonic Wars, after which the Navy developed other recruitment methods (until the return of conscription in 1916).