first edition Hardcover
1924 · London
by Robinson, Charles N.
London: The Studio, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth backstrip faded to brown. Teg. Very good. 36 pages in text. 30.5 x 25.5 cm. Twenty-four tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards with ninety-six illustrations in total. Limited edition, copy 452 of 1500. Following a distinguished career in the Royal Navy he was appointed Naval Correspondent of The Times, a post he held for forty-four years. Clean, bright copy, beveled edges, gilt lettering front cover and spine, decorated endpapers.
(Inventory #: 24385)