Hanway (Jonas) Three Letters on the Subject of the Marine Society, fine engraved frontispiece by J.B.Cipriani, title in red & black, Letter I second edition, Letter III with engraved frontispiece by Hayman, illustration & tail-piece and interleaved, list of subscribers at end, 1758; Two Letters..., title in red & black, 1758, together 2 works in 1 vol., first collected editions, an excellent clean wide-margined copy on thick paper, the scholar Arnold Muirhead's copy with his book-label, contemporary calf, rubbed, corners bumped, rebacked preserving old roan label, [Goldsmiths' 9406 & 9408], 4to

⁂ A scarce complete set of Hanway's five letters on his Marine Society, with separate title pages, pagination and register to each letter and a list of subscribers to the Marine Society. The first item is the ?first of three collected editions issued in the same year, the second was intended as a continuation of the first.

Hanway established the Marine Society in 1756 to kit out destitute men and boys and send them to sea. In 1758 he also co-founded the Magdalen Hospital for penitent prostitutes, the subject of the final letter.