Sailing Vessels In Authentic Early 19th Century Illustration

This superb series of sixty-five etchings by the famous English artist Edward William Cooke (1811-1880) is one of the masterworks of maritime art. It is an authentic, richly atmospheric record of English ships and shipping in the early decades of the 19th century, the era of the Regency, the Napoleonic Wars and the dawn of the great age of British commercial shipping. Illustrations include sixty-five plates of shipping and craft. Softcover.