The Story of the British Navy From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by E. Keble Chatterton
1911. First Edition. 371 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated blue cloth with a colour illustrated frontis and black and white illustrated plates throughout. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. There is cracks to guttering with exposed netting and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Boards have visible rubbing and notable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavier rubbing and tanning to spine. Splitting to joints and fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.