Charpentier

réf. 98098 — London Herbert Jenkins Limited ca1936 9th printing. Hardback 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Halfbound black calf leather and blue cloth to boards. Gilt vignette to front raised banding and gilt decorations to spine with twin maroon leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped some rubbing marks to leather on front. Prize label to front endpaper “Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to N.M. Patterson for Meritorious Work 1936.” Some occasional minor light foxing to pages. Folding plan of Port slightly darkened and rubbed along top edge folded edge chipped. Plates clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xxiv 295pp. Illustrated with 2 Plans 1 folding 39 B&W Photographs & 5 Drawings by Charles De Lacey. London, Herbert Jenkins Limited, ca1936 9th printing hardcover