Standing orders. Channel squadron. 1884

80pp. With numerous interleaved and pasted in manuscript additions (and one manuscript addition in some form of reproduction - perhaps by lithography?). Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Rubbed to extremities, marked to boards, some marking, staining and creasing to text, endpapers. Inscribed 'No. 60' to FEP and 'Capt. Britten. Private' to FFEP. Printed in July 1884, these Standing Orders for the Channel Squadron of the Royal Navy were issued in very limited numbers; the printing code notes just 65 copies of this work. They would, presumably, only have been issued to the Captains of the ships forming the Squadron protecting the home waters of the English Channel, and the respective responsible naval officers at ports and at the Admiralty. This copy, numbered as 60, would have been used by Captain Richard Frederick Britten (1843-1910), who commanded the Ironclad HMS Minotaur between March 10th 1884 and July 27th 1885, as she operated with the Evolutionary Squadron. COPAC and OCLC together locate just two copies in institutional libraries, at the NMM and Plymouth. Size: Folio.…