STEEL, P.] The Shipwright's Vade-Mecum , London: J. W. Norie, 1822, 8°, second edition, engraved frontispiece, woodcut figures (without the atlas containing 4 large plates), original drab boards (rebacked, preserving old spine with printed label). [Scott 550] With 8 other manuals and pamphlets on ship-building, early to mid 19th century, including the following Scott Library titles: Sir Robert Seppings A Letter to Rear Admiral Charles Elkins on constructing bows and circular sterns (London, 1824), J. R. Hall Tables of the Tonnage of Ships (London, n.d), John Cock Mast Making made Easy (London, 1845), the 1840 edition of William Sutherland's The Ship Builder's Assistant , John Fincham Questions on the Construction, Laying-Off, Building and Repairing of Ships (2nd edition, London, 1854) and Lord Robert Montagu Naval Architecture; A treatise on ship-building and the rig of clippers (2nd edition, London, 1852). (9)
STEEL, P.] The Shipwright's Vade-Mecum , London: J. W. Norie, 1822, 8°, second edition, engraved frontispiece, woodcut figures (without the atlas containing 4 large plates), original drab boards (rebacked, preserving old spine with printed label). [Scott 550] With 8 other manuals and pamphlets on ship-building, early to mid 19th century, including the following Scott Library titles: Sir Robert Seppings A Letter to Rear Admiral Charles Elkins on constructing bows and circular sterns (London, 1824), J. R. Hall Tables of the Tonnage of Ships (London, n.d), John Cock Mast Making made Easy (London, 1845), the 1840 edition of William Sutherland's The Ship Builder's Assistant , John Fincham Questions on the Construction, Laying-Off, Building and Repairing of Ships (2nd edition, London, 1854) and Lord Robert Montagu Naval Architecture; A treatise on ship-building and the rig of clippers (2nd edition, London, 1852). (9)
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