Royal Navy.- [Ward (Edward)] The Wooden World Dissected; in the Character of a Ship of War, eighth edition, browned, cropped with occasional slight loss (mostly catchwords), with contemporary ink inscriptions (one relating to the American Revolutionary War) on front free endpapers, contemporary sheep, worn and repaired, rebacked, new endpapers, [ESTC T201255], 12mo, for H.Woodgate, and S.Brooks, 1761.
⁂ Controversial account of the Royal Navy, first published in 1707, by the satirical writer Ned Ward who is most renowned for The London Spy of 1698. All editions are scarce; some contain an engraved frontispiece but seemingly not called for here. ESTC and Library Hub cite one copy only of this edition (King's College Library, University of London).
The main inscription reads: " Darious Sandford his hand wrote at Fort Dolphin after being taken prisoner by the schooner Punch John Parksinson put on board a Spanish ?corvette of Part de Plat ? to Fort Dolphin".
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