1st Edition 1919 Signed by the author to the endpaper to G Hunter. Possibly Sir George Burton Hunter who was an English shipbuilder based on Tyneside. Eventually becoming the Swan Hunter company. Contains 517 printed pages of text with a frontispiece, a coloured plate, 9 monochrome plates on 7, 9 large folding charts coloured in outline and 4 folding diagrams in pocket at end.Book is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Contents good. Endpapers slightly age toned.