first edition
1750 · London
by BLANCKLEY, Thomas Riley
London: E. Owen, 1750. First Edition. 4to, pp. [4] leaves, 191. With a list of subscribers, 330 small marginal copper engravings by Paul Fourdrier in the text and 3 larger text engravings, depicting the parts of the ship. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped suede, leather leather tips and spine, some shelf worn, library bookplate. Engraved title-page with some toning to the margins. A nice clean copy with new endpaper, library numeral on spine. This was reissued in 1755. Not in NMM Catalog; Roding I 118 calls it the best English nautical dictionary before Falconer; Scott p. 261; Craig pp. 12-13.
(Inventory #: 34978)