Wooden Warship Construction: A History in Ship Models
Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing, 2017.
First Edition. Hardcover.
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves and ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such, they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve.
Wooden Warship Construction employs a selection of the best models to describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity from the beginning of the 18th century to the end of wooden shipbuilding. Full color photographs, including many close-up and detailed views are provided and annotated
An authoritative text combined with a large number of models photographed in full color, including many close-up and detail views and captions, provide an unusual technical history of wooden warship construction.
Item #902033ISBN: 9781473894808
7-1/2 x 10", brown cloth, brown endpapers, 128pp, appendix, further reading, fully illus.
A little rubbing to extreme spine ends, clean of owner’s marks, tight, and crisp, fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $50.00