Author: Cecil C. P. Lawson [ed.]
Title: Naval Ballads and Sea Songs
Description: London, Peter Davies , 1933. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon anthology of naval and sea ballads, selected and strikingly illustrated by Cecil Gordon Lawson. First edition.With the very scarce dust wrapper, price-clipped. A charming anthology of historical sea songs and ballads, many of which recount famous ships, battles or voyages, including 'The Boatswain's Whistle', 'Battle of the Shannon and Chesapeake' and 'The Brave Tars of Old England', among others. Selected and illustrated by Cecil Gordon Lawson, a British landscapist and artist who is credited by some with restoring the tradition of Thomas Gainsborough and John Crome to English landscape. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with minor shelf wear and a few small marks to the boards. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine and chipped to the head and tail, with a few closed tears along the wraps' top edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spots to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Cecil C. P. Lawson. Near Fine/Good.

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