157 - ENGRAVED TICKET AND FORM OF PRAYER FOR THE NATIONAL SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING AT ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL, 19 DECEMBER 1797

ENGRAVED TICKET AND FORM OF PRAYER FOR THE NATIONAL SERVICE OF THANKSGIVING AT ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL, 19 DECEMBER 1797 for the naval victories at Brest (1 June 1794), Cape St Vincent (14 February 1797), and Camperdown (11 October 1797), 235 x 284mm, ( edges trimmed, spotted); together with A Form of Prayer to be used on the Nineteenth of December [1797] , half-title, 15 pages, stitched, uncut [ESTC T193423 – only one copy recorded], [?London, 1797]; 22 engraved or lithographic naval portraits of Admiral Nelson (2 versions), Admiral Collingwood, Admiral George Lord Rodney, Alexander Hood Viscount Bridport, Captain G. W. Manby (2 versions), Sir Charles Maurice Pole, Admiral Earl Howe (2 versions), Viscount Duncan, Admiral the Hon Samuel Barrington, Admiral Lord Viscount Keppel, Admiral Lord Viscount Hood, William Lord Radstock (and a cut signature), George Lord Keith (2 versions), Admiral Codrington (2 versions), plus a card mount with portraits of Captain Hardy (mounted with an original cut signature), Lord Viscount Nelson, and Nelson’s servant Tom Allen; model-maker’s plans of H.M.S. Victory on four sheets, together with a booklet by Geoffrey Callender, published by the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, January 1936; and a 1963 facsimile copy of The Naval Achievements of Great Britain (A lot) Provenance: Estate of the Late Clive Richards CBE.