Description

2 volumes. First Edition of Each Volume, LIMITED ISSUE, EACH ONE OF 97 COPIES ON SPECIAL PAPER OF WHICH ONLY 87 ONLY WERE OFFERED FOR SALE, and being publication twenty-one of the Marine Research Society. Extensively illustrated with a colour frontispiece and more than 75 portraits of ships from either paintings or photographs and nearly 50 portraits of ship captains mostly from photographs. Large, thick 8vo, publisher's limited issue binding of marbled boards backed in black cloth, the spine gilt lettered, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, and in the original slipcase. xvi, 399, [1] pp. A very fine copy of each of the volumes of this scarce issue, the text-blocks are unopened in each volume and are as pristine, the bindings are solid, clean and very well preserved, the spine panels still rich and dark in colour, the slipcases also in fine condition but for that of the second volume which has some wear to the lower panel.