Eyes of the Admiralty : J T Serres, an Artist in the Channel Fleet, 1799-1800
144pp; illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. Navy cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Decorative endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some minor shelf wear. Oblong 8vo. Makes available for the first time an astonishingly untapped source of visual material commissioned by the powerful civilian members of the Admiralty Board to increase their grasp of a critical theatre of operations in which the government were being pressed to conduct amphibious diversions to assist their continental allies.
