E E Speight Morton Nance (4 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1906. No Edition Remarks. 427 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. This book has been re-bound. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright.

5th edition of the 1905 original. XIII, 427 PP with 13 drawings and 20 plates (8 in colour and 12 in b/w). Fp (in colour): Destruction of the Spanish Armada by storm. Marbled end papers and outside edges. Leather binding (Oxford binding) with gilt decoration on front board, raised bands and title on spine. Prize plate of the Anglican School of Southport, pasted down on front endpaper. Covers ligtly rubbed on edges. Very good. 19.2 x 14.5. Sub-title: Being the Story of British Heroism in Voyaging and Sea -Fight from Alfred's Time to the Battle of Trafalgar, With an introduction tracing trhe development of the structure of sailing ships from the earliest times.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. First published in 1905. Blindstamp and private owner signature on front flyleaf, otherwise very good with no other markings. Lovely pictorial boards with only minor rubbing to illustrations. Some mild darkening to spine. Some foxing to first few and last few pages and some page edges & borders. Tight copy, original endsheets with no restoration needed. 20 full page plates, several in colour. Indexed.