THE BLUE BOOK OF BRITISH NAVAL BATTLES.
Pp. [200], coloured frontispiece and 7 plates, pictorial title page printed in blue & black, numerous black & white text illustrations; small cr. 4to; blue cloth backed decorative papered boards, with coloured pictorial onlay on the upper board, spine lettered and decorated in black, edges of boards lightly worn; outer leaves browned, lower hinge starting, short split to fore-edge of title page, scattered foxing); Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton, London, n.d.[1914?]. *Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867-1947), who were both staff members of Oxford University Press. Together they wrote and edited numerous stories for boys and (under the name 'Mrs. Herbert Strang') girls. Item #172327
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