Loades D M Editor (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. paperback, a very good copy, signature of a previous owner, 171pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 12.50x9.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine - See Description. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Signature of Brian Fothergill (biographer and writer) on ftont free end-paper, colour photograph of Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury tipped in inside front board. Neatly penciolled annotations on rear free end-paper.

Pp. xxii+198, black & white frontispiece, plus numerous coloured and a few black & white text illustrations, appendices, index; narrow med. 4to; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corners of boards bruised; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on flaps and reverse, edges slightly creased, short closed tear at head of backstrip; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; published for the Navy Records Society by Ashgate in association with The British Library and Magdalene College, Cambridge, Aldershot, 2000. Occasional Publications of the Navy Records Society Volume 2. *'Here for the first time complete in print is the famous pictorial survey of Henry VIII's navy compiled in 1546 by Anthony Anthony, a clerk in the ordnance office. Originally comprising three rolls of vellum, the MS features paintings of each of the king's 58 ships, below which are set details of their guns, shot, and related equipment. Two of the original rolls were given by Charles II to Samuel Pepys, who had them cut to form a volume which is one of the treasures of his library, now at Magdalene College, Cambridge' [wrapper blurb].