First UK edition, first impression (previously published in the USA). xviii, 454, [6]pp, with numerous black and white illustrations in text and several folding plates. Blue cloth-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Large 8vo. Cloth is a little faded in margins, gently rounded at corners and spine tips. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original shelf worn dust wrapper, rubbed and chipped on edges, especially corners and spine ends, price clipped,
A detailed study of 103 American sailing ships, providing a history of naval architecture in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with 132 plans.
