By Viscount Hythe [ed.]; John Leyland [ed.]
London   Williams Clowes and Sons
10" by 6" vi, 456 [8]; xi, 324, xii; xxii, xiv, 496, xxiii-xlii [12]; xviii, xii, 486, xix-xlii [8]; xxii, xiv, 542, xl [12]; xii, xiv, 364, 166, xiii-xiv [14], xxv, vi, 538, xxvii-xxviiipp.
Eight scarce volumes of the informative periodical The Naval Annual, started by Thomas Brassey.
By Viscount Hythe [ed.]; John Leyland [ed.]

1914-1948 The Naval Annual; Brassey's Naval Annual; Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual

London   Williams Clowes and Sons
10" by 6" vi, 456 [8]; xi, 324, xii; xxii, xiv, 496, xxiii-xlii [12]; xviii, xii, 486, xix-xlii [8]; xxii, xiv, 542, xl [12]; xii, xiv, 364, 166, xiii-xiv [14], xxv, vi, 538, xxvii-xxviiipp.
Eight scarce volumes of the informative periodical The Naval Annual, started by Thomas Brassey.
£395.00
: 10kgs / : 944M6

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Description

Illustrated, Scarce

Eight scarce volumes uniformly bound in the publisher's original blind-stamped cloth binding.

Previous owner's ink inscription to the front paste down of the 1914 annual and to the front free end paper of the 1948 annual.

Eight volumes of The Naval Annual, providing extensive information on British and other nations' naval developments from 1914 to 1948. This periodical was started by Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey, in 1886, and was notable for its detailed articles on naval matters, written by experts.

This set comprises:

The Naval Annual, 1914
edited by Viscount Hythe and John Leyland. Illustrated with four plates and a diagram.

Brassey's Naval Annual, 1916
(War Edition) conducted by Earl Brassey and edited by John Leyland. Illustrated with nine illustrations and two maps, one folding.

The Naval Annual, 1919 
edited by Earl Brassey and John Leyland. Illustrated with twenty-eight illustrations.

Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual, 1928 
edited by Sir Alexander Richardson, Archibald Hurd and Arthur J. W. Burgess. Illustrated with forty plates.

Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual, 1921-2
edited by Sir Alexander Richardson and Archibald Hurd. Illustrated with twenty-eight plates.

Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual, 1929 
edited by Commander Charles N. Robinson and Arthur J. W. Burgess. Illustrated with thirty-three plates.

Brassey's Naval and Shipping Annual, 1933 edited by Commander Charles N. Robinson and H. M. Ross. Illustrated with twenty-three plates.

Brassey's Naval Annual, 1948 edited by Rear-Admiral H. G. Thursfield. Illustrated with eight plates.

Collated, complete.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart though faded to the spines. Minor shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for offsetting to the end papers.

Very Good

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