Admiralty-Office — The Navy List

London, John Murray, 1821-1827 . First edition. Leather. A substantial set of British naval history, offering monthly issues of the Navy List spanning 1821-27 and bound across three volumes. Three volumes, with three monthly issues of the 'Navy List' bound together in each. Bound in half crushed morocco, with paper covered boards. With contemporary blanks and endpapers.The Navy List, or The Monthly Navy List was an encyclopaedic publication issued on an almost unfailing monthly basis which listed the officers, ships, ports and stations and assignments of the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Canadian Navy.An invaluable tool which provides much of the data on ship captaincies and when various men were promoted. The first issue of The Navy List, published "By Authority" of the Admiralty by John Murray appeared in 1814.Each volume comprises the following:Volume I - The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of December 1821 (lacking first title page), bound with; Rules and Regulations of the Royal Naval Annuitant Society, April, 1823, bound with; The Navy List corrected to the 25th of December, 1823, bound with; The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of December, 1824, and one page of advertisements.Volume II - The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of June, 1825, bound with; The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of September, 1825, bound with; The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of December, 1825.Volume III - The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of September, 1826, bound with; The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of December 1826, bound with; The Navy List, corrected to the 25th of March, 1827. Bound in half crushed morocco, with paper covered boards. Externally, notably rubbed to the extremities, with scratches to the leather and scuffs to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly toned, with occasional spots. A couple contemporary ink inscriptions to title page of Dec. 1821, with minor suggestion of worming also to title. Good . Ill.: None. Good .