(Naval History, King William IV bookplate.) Admiral Sir Geor...

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(Naval History, King William IV bookplate.) Admiral Sir George Montagu: 'A refutation of the incorrect statements, and unjust insinuations, contained in Captain Brenton's Naval History of Great Britain, as far as the same refers to the conduct of Admiral Sir George Montagu, G.C.B. in a letter addressed to the author.', London, John Murray, 1823, 1st edition, viii,55,[1]pp, includes an extract from the ship's log of H.M.S. Hector from 1794, slim 8vo, contemporary full decorative morocco gilt, armorial bookplate of William Henry, Duke of Clarence (1765-1837), later King William IV, and further bookplates of his eldest illegitimate son (by his long-time mistress Dorothea Jordan, neé Bland) George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster (1794-1842), as Earl of Munster and Colonel FitzClarence