The Ashley Book of Knots

PUBLISHER
Faber and Faber Limited.

BINDING
Red cloth boards, illustrated endpapers.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are worn with scuffing and some fraying, corners bumped. Faded, especially the spine, with stain marks and signs of some water damage to the top of the volume. Hinges are weakened, but binding feels secure. Text and images are a little browned but still mostly little marked, although pages are stained and a little warped at the top edge from previous water damage.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
First G.B. edition 1947.

DESCRIPTION
The sailors "Bible" of knots and ropework. Thousands of diagrams and instructions for everything from a simple hitch to turks heads and hammocks. With eight plates of monochrome photographs at the start of the volume. 620 pp. Quarto.

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