Als nieuw met minimale gebruikssporen.

With over 250 illustrations in the text. 4to, gilt decorated full blue (slichtly discolored )leather, with bevelled edges, with dentelles, marbled end-papers, a.e.g. No.192 in a Limited Royal Numbered Edition of A volume in the British Sports and Sportsmen series. A quite massive work. C. Stansfeld Hicks' "Historical Survey of the Rise of British Shipping" (pp.1-70), "London River"(pp.71-99) and ""Lloyd's and Lloyd's Register" (pp.259-266); W.L. Manson's "The Story of the Clyde"; George Thompson's "The Rise and Development of Shipping on Mersey-side"; R.W. Johnson's "The Tyne and North-East Ports"; H.E. Cooper Newham's "Shipping on the Humber"; W.H. Simmonds' "The Bristol Channel"; G.E. Hopcroft's "Southampton"; "The Manchester Ship Canal"; Joseph L. Carozzi's "The Story of the Passenger Trade" (pp.2219-258); Sir Douglas Owen's ""Shipowning and Marine Insurance"; D.B. Morison's "Propelling a Cargo Boat"; Neal Green's "The Trawling Industry"; J.P. Loughnan's "The British Merchantman in War" (pp.303-3327, including colour illustrations of the Aquitania, Mauretania, Ausonia and Phrygia); "Personalities in the Shipping World (pp.329-483, includes Sir E.R. Bowring of Newfoundland (p.338) and a reasonable number of non-Britishers, and given its sporting publisher, includes the sporting interests of all). With three indices including ships.