Ship Models: Their Purpose and Development from 1650 to the Present

1st edition dust jacket As New quarto 256pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., bibliog., indexes, 'A comprehensive discussion of ship models and their uses, techniques of construction, craftsmen who made them, history of their collection and display and conservation. Sheds fresh light on the role of ship models in maritime history and celebrates the ship model as a remarkable and hitherto undervalue form of applied and decorative art. Book concludes with the first comprehensive catalogue of ship models in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich'.