The Growth, Achievements and Duties of the Navy of the Empire.
Limited Edition on Large Paper. Engraved portrait frontispiece and ten other similar portraits, sixteen other plates, numerous illustrations to the text. Large 8vo. Very good in the original vellum-backed boards, somewhat rubbed and soiled. xviii, 560pp. London, George Bell & Sons, 1894.
A little worn and soiled externally, but this unnumbered limited edition of 150 of Robinson’s useful digest is enhanced by the additional portrait plates. This copy with Nathan Meyer Rothschild’s attractive Tring Park bookplate, dated 1898.
