The Royal Navy: A History, from Earliest Times to the Present (7 Vol Set)
Author:
CLOWES, Wm LAIRD et al
Title:
The Royal Navy: A History, from Earliest Times to the Present (7 Vol Set)
Publisher:
Sampson Low, Marston and Company 1897-1903
Description:
7 VOL SET, FIRST EDITIONS, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt maritime motis to front boards, teg, deckled page edges, frontispieces with tissue guards, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate chafing & light soiling to boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, occasional cracking to gutters, moderate soiling to eps, moderate foxing throughout- mostly to prelims & terminals, tissue guard of vol 1 frontis missing, prev. owner's names in ink & pencil to prelims)
Keywords:
royal navy maritime military history naval first editions