SWORDS FOR SEA SERVICE.
With a note on the Sword Cutler by J. D. Aylward. Drawings by P. G. W. Annis, John Munday, Michael A. Papps & Anne Whittle. In two volumes. Pp. [ii]+xxii+258(last blank)+[iv]+[259]-398, 117 plates (5 coloured, including frontispieces), numerous text figures, pictorial endpapers, biographical notes, indices; narrow med. 4to; beige cloth, spines lettered in purple, the cloth faintly foxed; top edges purple/brown; price-clipped dust wrappers, slightly scuffed, lightly foxed on reverse, edges worn and slightly split, back panel creased at foot Volume I; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpapers, some light foxing; His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1970. First edition. *Based on the sword collection in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. 'Photographs of some 150 swords, dirks and cutlasses illustrate the more important variations relating to each type . . . with weapons placed in a personal historical context by the provision of brief biographical studies of those by whom they were used' [wrapper blurb]. Item #181389
Price: $250.00