Description:
First Edition. 8vo., title, half-title, colour frontispiece protected with tissue guard, profusely illustrated throughout with numerous monochrome illustrations and diagrams, including one folding plate. Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd (London), 1948.Finely bound in a later Cosway-style full navy full morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Bath with their binder's signature to the front turn-in, the upper cover with inset hand-coloured oval portrait of Admiral Hood (1724-1816) under glass, the miniature within a gilt-tooled border, double rule gilt border to covers, foliate spray corner pieces, spine separated into compartments by five raised bands finished in gilt, lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, turn-ins with gilt fillets, watered silk endpapers, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown.
A fine example.
This work provides a comprehensive history of the Royal Navy's origins, ships, officers, seamen, administration, important battles, weaponry, and… Read More