Hanway (Jonas) Proposal for County Naval Free-Schools to be built on Waste Lands, giving such effectual Instructions to Poor Boys, as may nurse them for the Sea Service, teaching them also to cultivate the Earth, first edition, 2 engraved titles, first with vignette, 9 folding engraved plates, 48pp. engraved music (lacking pp.13-16), some offsetting of plates, uncut in original boards with original engraved presentation label to upper cover, worn, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, folio, [1783].

⁂ Hanway founded the Marine Society in 1756 and this work, as is evident from the title, proposes educating poor boys in both rural affairs and seamanship.