Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charnock, John, 1756-1807
Title:
An history of marine architecture : including an enlarged and progressive view of the nautical regulations and naval history, both civil and military, of all nations, especially of Great Britain : derived chiefly from original manuscripts, as well in private collections as in the great public repositories : and deduced from the earliest period to the present time : in three volumes / by John Charnock, Esq. F.S.A.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for R. Faulder [and 23 others in London] ... and S. Deighton, Cambridge, by Bye and Law, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, MDCCC-MDCCCII [1800-1802]
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 33 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
VM15 C43 1800+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The most authoritative book on eighteenth-century shipbuilding published in England"--Abbey.

Engravings by Inigo Barlow, John Greig, Thomas Hall, James Newton, and Charles Tomkins; after William Alexander, John Charnock, A.L. Van Kaldenbach, T. Kinnersley, John Scott, Robert Shipster, George Staples, and Willem van de Velde.

V. 1 and 2 printed by Bye and Law. V. 3 printed by Nichols and Son.

Added engraved t.p. in v. 1.

English short title catalogue, T011210

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 331

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in blind- and gilt-stamped red morocco; gilt edges. Covers panelled with interlacing panels in gilt and blind. Blue watered silk endpapers.
Subject Terms:
Naval architecture -- History. | Naval history. | Shipbuilding -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- History, Naval. | R. Faulder -- Publisher. | Bye and Law -- Printer. | Nichols and Son -- Printer. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1800–1802.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1800-1802.
Contributors:
Alexander, William, 1767–1816, ill. | Charnock, John, 1756–1807, ill. | Kaldenbach, A. L. van, ill. | Scott, John, 1774–1827, ill. | Serres, Dominic, 1719–1793, ill. | Staples, George, ill. | Velde, Willem van de, 1610 or 11–1693, ill. | Velde, Willem van de, 1633–1707, ill. | West, Benjamin, 1738–1820, ill. | Barlow, Inigo, engraver. | Greig, John, active 1803–1853. | Hall, Thomas, active 1772–1800, engraver. | Kinnersley, T. (Thomas), engraver. | Newton, James, 1748–approximately 1804, engraver. | Shipster, Robert, engraver. | Tomkins, Charles, 1757–1823.