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The Sailing Ship – Romola and R. C. Anderson’s classic history of the sailing ship from the earliest Egyptian craft to the clippers and the coming of steam. The Hugh Evelyn hardcover edition, with over 130 drawings and 20 half-tone plates. A good copy in its dust jacket, which has a small tear, with tape marks on the endpapers.
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The Sailing Ship: Six Thousand Years of History by Romola and R. C. Anderson was first published in 1926. This copy is the Hugh Evelyn edition, published from 9 Fitzroy Square, London, by arrangement with George G. Harrap & Co. and W. W. Norton & Company, carrying a 1963 copyright notice and printed in the United States of America.
The Sailing Ship traces the sailing ship from its beginnings in the ancient Mediterranean and Egypt, through the Northern European ships, to the moment in the fifteenth century when these streams united to produce the full-rigged ship. It then follows the evolution of that standard type, culminating in the clipper ships of the nineteenth century, until the sailing ship was finally overtaken by steam. The text is accompanied by over a hundred and thirty drawings and diagrams and twenty half-tone plates.
R. C. Anderson was one of the great authorities on the history of the ship and a founder of the Society for Nautical Research. The Sailing Ship remains a standard, readable introduction to how ships and their rigs developed over six thousand years.
The Sailing Ship will appeal to maritime historians, ship modellers, sailors, and collectors of nautical books.
Condition – Good
Hardcover in the original dust jacket, which has been sealed in a clear plastic cover taped down to the flaps. The jacket has a small triangular tear on the front panel and some rubbing and creasing to the plastic, mainly along the spine. The tape has left brown offset marks on the front and rear endpapers. The text block is clean and the binding sound.
