The British Navy, Its Making And Meaning by Ernest Protheroe - 1914

George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No edition remarks. 694 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white, and colour photographic plates and in-text illustrations. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting causing the binding to be shaky. Large crack at front board. Remains of pasted in news paper at front paste-down. Previous owner inscription to front. Free end-paper. Newspaper pasted to damp stained rear paste down. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Book has a slight forward lean. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is darkened. Hole and additional wear in spine cloth edges.

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George Routledge and Sons, c. 1915. 1st edn. 8vo. Rebound in contemporary gilt tooled blue morocco, all edge gilt and marbled endpapers (rather rubbed and worn - in protective cover). Pp. xx + 694, illus with 8 coloured plates and b&w plates and drawings in text (Hulme Grammar School 1915 prize plate on front paste-down).

E-042: George Routledge & Sons Ltd. Very Good. 0. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd, London. No Date. Xx + 694 pgs. Illustrated with 8 Color plates and 289 in text plates. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly scuffed along the crown of the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A history of the British Navy from its early beginnings to World War One, including technical advances. EB .

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1914. Hardcover. Octavo, xx, 694 pages. In Good condition. Spine is blue with gilt lettering. Boards have shelf wear, bumping to corners, minor rubbing, and minor tearing with a library identification sticker on the spine. Text block has pencil writing on end papers and copyright page, a library sticker on the front paste down and a purple stamp on the title page. Ex-Library. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1373061. Special Collections.

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1914. Hardcover. Octavo, xx, 694 pages. In Good condition. Spine is blue with gilt lettering. Boards have shelf wear, bumping to corners, minor rubbing, and minor tearing with a library identification sticker on the spine. Text block has pencil writing on end papers and copyright page, some colored pencil writing on the front end paper, pencil writing in the title page gutter, and two small stickers on the rear paste down. Ex-Library. NOTE: Shelved in Room A. 1373522. Special Collections.

London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. ,. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1915. Presumed First UK Edition. Hardcover. In the original blue decorated cloth with bright gilt titling to the spine and a handsome bright gilt panel of 'Warship at Sea' on the upper board. Slight 'pushing' to the head/tail of the spine from storage, but NO damage. The page fore edges have a few scattered marks ( patchy foxing - tan spots/lines) but overall this is a very good bright, tight, clean copy. No date but c. 1915/16 going on internal evidence (see the Appendix which lists Battleships, Submarines Armed Cruisers, etc, etc) . Internally the occasional patching to the page fore-edges has bled into the very edge of some pages, o/w the book is very clean with No Inscriptions or other marks. (xx) + 694pp including the Index. A full page tissue guarded full colour frontispiece (HMS 'Iron Duke') and 7 other colour plates, plus 289 b/w illustrations, many full page and smaller ones in the… Read More