Author: BIDDLE T.E.
Title: The Corinthian Yachtsman, or Hints on Yachting. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY. IN FULL MOROCCO
Description: C Wilson late Norie & Wilson,, 1881. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, and engraved plate of rigging and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, previous owners' signatures in pencil on blank preliminary; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, gilt back, uncut, original pictorial cloth from upper board and backstrip mounted on separate new leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With 20pp of trade advertisements (a number illustrated) bound in at rear. Lovely copy of this classic and scarce work, which includes an extensive glossary of terms.

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