Author: Culver, Henry B.
Title: The Book of Old Ships and Something of Their Evolution and Romance
Description: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page and Company, 1924. 514/750. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt lettering and gilt/black front illustration. Decorative end papers. 306 pp. with color frontis (tissue guard), nearly 60 bw plates and a bw plate signed by the artist, Gordon Grant. This is the special Flotilla Edition, limited to 750 copies, of which this is No. 514. Included is a bw plate signed by Gordon Grant, who did all the illustrations for the book, compiled from authentic sources. The complete title of the book is "The Book of Old Ships and Something of Their Evolution and Romance, Wherein will be found drawings and descriptions of many varieties of vessels, both long and round, showing their development from most remote times; the portraiture of their progress, their garnishments, etc. etc. etc. Together wiht divers dissertations upon the origins of shipping: also an appendix wherein will be discovered to the inquisitive much information appertaining to the ancient uses and customs of the sea and mariners." Full of all sorts of maritime information and with a full-page bw drawing of each of the many vessels described, from Egyptian times to the Clipper ships to the "Modern Super Ship" (a 5-masted Bark..). Ill.: Gordon Grant. VG internally, clean and tight but with wear to cover edges and soiling to covers. Former owner's bookplate inside front cover.

Keywords: American Artists; Gordon Grant; Ships; Maritime; Transportation ; Grant, Gorgon ; ; Gordon Grant


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