Blanckley (Thomas Riley . A Naval Expositor, shewing and explaining the Words and Terms of Art belonging to the Parts, Qualities, and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, and Fitting a Ship for Sea, 1st edition, E. Owen, 1750, engraved title-page, numerous engraved vignettes in margins and 3 larger engraved vignettes in the text, all by Paul Fourdrinier, title-page slightly marked, marginal finger-soiling to p. 173, a few other faint marks elsewhere, ownership inscription of Martin Orskey to front free endpaper, modern speckled calf to style, slightly scuffed, 4to (26.4 x 20.2 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC T131269. Blanckley (1717-1753) was sometime clerk of the survey at Portsmouth and a commissioner of the Victualling Office. His Naval Expositor precedes Falconer's Universal Dictionary of the Marine by nearly twenty years.
Blanckley (Thomas Riley . A Naval Expositor, shewing and explaining the Words and Terms of Art belonging to the Parts, Qualities, and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, and Fitting a Ship for Sea, 1st edition, E. Owen, 1750, engraved title-page, numerous engraved vignettes in margins and 3 larger engraved vignettes in the text, all by Paul Fourdrinier, title-page slightly marked, marginal finger-soiling to p. 173, a few other faint marks elsewhere, ownership inscription of Martin Orskey to front free endpaper, modern speckled calf to style, slightly scuffed, 4to (26.4 x 20.2 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC T131269. Blanckley (1717-1753) was sometime clerk of the survey at Portsmouth and a commissioner of the Victualling Office. His Naval Expositor precedes Falconer's Universal Dictionary of the Marine by nearly twenty years.
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