Whaleships of New Bedford: Sixty Plates
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Crimson cloth with gilt letters and decoration on spine and boards; unpaginated, 60 drawn plates. VG- (Once nicely rebound for a private school, whose name appears at the heel of the outer spine; few ownership marks; flyleaves and edges of book block are slightly soiled; pages are crisp and clean. Item #153759
60 drawings of whaling ships and seascapes, as originally rendered by New Bedford native artist Clifford Warren Ashley (1881-1947). He is most known for his illustrated "Ashley Book of Knots." With an introduction by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Exquisite views. One of 1035 copies.
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