by Tyrrel E. Biddle
London, C. Wilson, late Norie & Wilson, 1881.
pp87 xvi + 20 pages of superb period adverts. 2 plates.
a little foxing to preliminary and end pages, and page edges, but a really sparkling condition hardback in the original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt.
heraldic book-plate to front paste-down.
the scarce First Edition of this excellent study of the practicalities of Victorian yachting.
The book was re-issued in identical form, in a blue binding, but with fewer advert pages, in 1886
