1896 The British Fleet

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

Third "cheaper" edition.

In full blue calf with gilt emblem detail and marbled endpapers. Bound by Relfe Brothers Ltd. for Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster. Binder's stamp to rear of first free endpaper.

Queen Elizabeth's School was founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother to King Henry VII. It is situated in Wimborne Minster, Dorset and has been open since the mid-15th century.

Profusely illustrated with in-text illustrations, a frontispiece and 14 further monochrome plates. Collated, complete.

Includes a publisher's advertisement to rear of half-title page.

Written by Commander Charles Napier Robinson, who became a journalist after retiring from the Royal Navy. As the editor for multiple Navy periodicals and a founder of the Society for Nautical Research, his published works centered on his Navy expertise, this text providing a general overview of the origins and organisation of the British Navy.