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Description
BRITISH LIGHTHOUSES: THEIR HISTORY AND ROMANCE.
Book Details + Condition: T. Fisher Unwin (London). First Edition. Hardcover. 383 pages, with 73 Illustrations. Bound in blue cloth with gold blocked image of Cork Lightship to front board and bright gilt titles and decoration to spine. "I have endeavored to give a brief but interesting account of our lighthouses and other sea-marks." (From the Preface) Contents include: The Origin of the Art of Navigation; Lights of the Middle Ages; Wrecks and Wreckers; How Lighthouses Guide the Mariner at Night; Lifeboats; The Power of the Wind and the Waves; and more. In very good condition: tight binding; rubbed corners and spine ends; light shelf wear to boards; toning to endpapers; bookplate on inside front board; text is clean and unmarked save owner note on front endpaper.
