Description

Hardcover, small quarto bound in dark blue cloth, lettered in god on spine, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. Glossary, Index. Illustrated with 39 photographic plates, many with side and top down sketch of ship included. First edition. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. A history of bulwark of the British fleet, from the introduction of the Royal Sovereign class in 1892, until the moth-balling of the Vanguard in 1956. Toned marks inside boards from verso of mylar flaps, else a clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. No previous ownership marks. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.