The romance of submarine engineering : containing interesting descriptions in non-technical language of the construction of submarine boats, the salving of great ships, the recovery of sunken treasure, the building of breakwaters and docks, and many other feats of engineering beneath the surface of the water / by T.W. Corbin ... ; with fifty-four illustrations & diagrams.
Thomas W. Corbin
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257471
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 13-315, [5], 16 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., diagrams ; 8vo. Pencil code on front free endpaper verso: "u/ed 8/9". Pencil number on rear pastedown: "92". Ephemera: loosely inserted bookmark, advertising Royal Exchange Assurance. Provenance: Ticket on rear pastedown: 'The Times Book Club, / 376 Oxford St., London, W.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): men laying a deep sea cable; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped divers, gilt lettering and red and white stamped divers on spine.
Makers and roles
Thomas W. Corbin, author