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Illustrated. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Unmarked, clean, bright and solid copy, dust jacket clean with light sunning on edges, not price clipped. No statement of edition, no indication of later printings. Priority and international shipping will cost extra.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. 226pp incl index. Full sky-blue cloth; slightly edge worn, spine rubbed, else very good. Former owner's last name neatly on front endpaper, upper corner, page edges lightly toned, else contents near fine. Text illus (some in color). Pictorial dj; panels slightly toned, else very good. Development of the modern British navy; from iron-clad masted ships, to dreadnoughts, and the evolution specialized combat ships: cruisers, destroyers, etc.
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Woodward, Ray. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has some wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. 226 p. 32 cm. Illustrations (some in color). Bibliography. Index. Development of the modern British navy; from iron-clad masted ships, to dreadnoughts, and the evolution specialized combat ships: cruisers, destroyers, etc.
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Ray Woodward. Very good in Good jacket. [6], 226 pages. Illustrated (color) endpaper. Illustrations. Appendices: 1, A Summary of British Naval Events From 1860-1967; 2, Some Abstracts of the Strength of the Royal Navy 1860-1970; 3 The Naval Surveyors From 1544. Bibliography. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. E. H. H. Archibald, who was for over 30 years the curator of that enormous oils collection, and oversaw acquisition of nearly a quarter the 4, 000 oil paintings in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, include more portraits than any other English collection except the National Portrait Gallery. Teddy Archibald was born in Belfast in 1927. He became a keen sailor, and later a risk-taking athlete whose exploits included surviving the Cresta Run practically untutored on both the luge and in a dangerously impromptu bobsleigh crew: they crashed. An early idea of joining the Navy led him to an English prep school before, rather unusually for his background, he went to Stowe, then recently established and under the charismatic headmastership of J.F. Roxburgh. He went o Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1945 to read History. His main publishing successes were his two specially illustrated books on The Wooden Fighting Ship in the Royal Navy (1968) and The Metal Fighting Ship (1970) which sold modestly as he refused to allow a cheap edition. Thus this work has become increasingly rare and has always been prized. this book does not contain photographs though there are a few colored paintings/cutaways. The book doesn't need photographs--the line drawings are absolutely perfect and augmented by text explaining the historical contexts that led from one ship class to another. One comes away with an excellent understanding of the dizzying pace of warship (especially battleships and cruisers) development between 1875 and 1915 that resulted in the successful formula used thereafter. This work commences in 1860 when the ironclad Warrior was launched and continues for more than a century through iron and steel hulls to the more complex vessels of the present time. It offers a wide-ranging survey of every stage of development in each branch of naval construction, making this a uniquely broad-based reference of the history of the metal fighting ship.
