12mo. 52pp. Naively rebound in later cloth-baked buff paper boards, partially preserving original publisher's upper and lower wrappers. Rubbed and marked. Title page and terminal leaf attached to boards, the remainder (sewn, as issued) loosely inserted.

[Bound between p.26-27:] [Caption title:] Sir james saumarez' victory. Lloyd's Coffee-House, February 17, 1804. [s.i.] [s.n.], [1804]. 4pp. Bound between p2-3 are [4]pp of advertisements for publisher P. Steel.

Steel's navy list for 1804, bound with a register of officers, seamen, and marines killed and wounded in action during the battles of Algeciras (1801) under the command of Sir James Saumarez (1757-1836), compiled by a committee appointed to manage the subscription raised for the benefit of their families.

The List of the Royal Navy was produced monthly by David Steel (1763-1803), nautical bookseller extraordinaire, and included intelligence on the most recent ships lost and captured. Relatively ephemeral in nature, few have survived. Steel was the author of The Shipmaster's Assistant and Owner's Manual (London, 1788) and assisted his father, also a bookseller, in the compilation of The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship (London, 1794).