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Naval Magazine. The Naval Magazine; or Maritime Miscellany, 3 volumes, Harrison, Cluse, and Co. [volume 3: Alexander Hogg], 1799-1801, engraved additional vignette title-page to each volume, 27 engraved plates of which 14 hand-coloured, occasional spotting and soiling, volume 2 vignette title damp-stained, a few colour plates smudged or offset, bound with: Falconer (William), Falconer Improved and Modernized. The British and French Mariner's Encyclopaedia; or, New, Universal, and Complete Naval Dictionary ... a new edition, revised, corrected, and improved, by J. W. Norie, 1st edition thus, for Alex Hogg, 1802, 14 engraved plates (one hand-coloured), plates browned, 19th-century calf-backed marbled boards, relined, some wear, 8vo (21 x 12.8 cm) (Qty: 3) A near-complete set of this extremely uncommon, attractively illustrated but short-lived naval periodical, issued monthly from December 1789 apparently until June 1801 (Taylor, ed., The Personal Notebooks of Thomas Hardy p. 152 n. 590; our set ends with the issue for March 1801). No sets traced in UK libraries; OCLC identifies four sets of undetermined completeness in US libraries, and a stray copy of the second volume. The Naval Magazine commenced publication simultaneously with the Naval Chronicle, and probably failed to keep pace with the competition. 'Copies of it are a great rarity. It appears to have escaped the attention of naval bibliographers until quite recently' (Robinson, 'A Forgotten Naval Magazine. The Naval Magazine or Maritime Miscellany', The Mariner's Mirror, 1:6, pp. 168-70). Bound in at the rear is a copy of J. W. Norie's revised edition of Falconer's Marine Dictionary. Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.