by L.Cope Cornford
A & C Black, 1924.
1st edition. 188 pages. hardback.
a particularly bright copy in the original decorative blue cloth, and still retaining the dust-jacket. occasional light foxing, also present on the page edges.
an elusive company history. the work is illustrated in colour and tone from paintings by two of the most renowned marine artists of the period, W.L.Wyllie and Jack Spurling, as well as from photographs, old prints, etc.