Frontispiece with Royal Navy captain and midshipman before Britannia and a British lion. Britannia with plumed helmet, lance with flags, Union Jack shield. Bow, figurehead, mast and rigging of a man-of-war. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Williams from The Post Captain, or Adventures of a True British Tar by a Naval Officer, J. Johnston, London, 1817. Attributed to Alfred Thornton or John Mitford.

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