Chatterton, E. Keble. Old Ship Prints. Ldn. + N. Y., John Lane The Bodly Head + Dodd, Mead & Co. resp., no date. Large 8vo. XVIII, 182 pp., 5 ll. publisher's advertisings. With

110  (15  coloured)  illustrations  from  the  MacPherson  Collection

on 60 plts. + 2 text ills. Green orig. cloth with gilt stamped back and blind stamped front cover.

Chatterton's  standard  work  of  1927, here in generous typography on wide-margined heavy paper. – Title in blue + black. – Edges foxed, front fly-leaves and advertising leaves only slightly or quite weakly. Especially the back a little time-marked and faded.

Subdivided in The First Ship Prints – Shipping and Engraving – Art and Adventure – Prints and the Rise of Sea-Power – Mezzotint and Aquatint – Early 19^th Century Ship Prints – Merchant Ship Prints – Prints of Fore-and-Aft Vessels – Index .
Offer no. 28,173 / EUR  245. (c. US$ 353.) + shipping