Author: H. C. Folkard
Title: The Sailing: A Treatise on English and Foreign Boats and Yachts
Description: London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1870. Cloth. An uncommon copy of this classic illustrated guide to the designs and use of sailing boats. The fourth edition of this work. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with a gilt-stamped decoration to the front. Offering accurate descriptions of the various design elements of English sailing boats and yachts as well as guides to their management and running, such as rigging, scudding, reefing and ballasting. Written by H. C. Folkard, who also wrote books on wildfowling and shooting. Illustrated throughout with in-text figures as well as a frontispiece and twenty-four monochrome plates. Collated, complete. With a thirty-page catalogue of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With slight darkening to the spine cloth and minor loss to the spine head. Marks to the boards. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound, with the front endpapers loosening, but attached. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional spots. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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