Naval Customs: Traditions and Usage (1939)
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Naval Customs: Traditions and Usage (1939)
by Leland P. Lovette
9 x 6. In English. Printed by George Banta Publishing Company for the United States Naval Institute, MD, 1939. 3rd Edition stated. 404 pp. Complete. Illustrated. ** Rebound by George Bayntun. ** Polished, full blue morocco with double gilt rules on front and rear boards. Light shelf wear. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with double gilt rules and elaborate designs. Red morocco label with bright gilt title. Spine head and tail as well as corners sharp. Extremities near fine. Gilt foredges. Elaborate dentelles with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown as well as embossed stamp on front fly; otherwise no ownership markings. George Bayntun’s bookplate describing how the book was bound and how to care for the book neatly applied to front endpaper. Frontis with tissue guard. Title page and text block crisp and clean. Overall, a handsome copy. Trivial external wear and virtually new internally.
First published in 1934, this edition was up-dated and published the same year as the outbreak of World War II. This book addresses regulations of ceremonies, salutes, and honors, and lays emphasis upon outstanding customs, traditions, nautical phraseology, usage, and courtesies of the U.S. Navy. While the British and Russians struggled against the German Reich, the United States remained officially neutral and refused to enter the war until December 1941.
About the binder: George Bayntun was born and lived in Bath, Somerset, England where he served a book-binding apprenticeship before starting his own book-binding business in Northumberland Place in 1894. He took on a number of London binders in order to raise the standard of craftsmanship in his own bindery and soon afterwards moved the business into larger premises on Walcot Street in Bath. Bayntun adhered to traditional book binding techniques and built a strong relationship with many American dealers. His last years were crowned by the patronage of Queen Mary, who spent the World War II years near Bath. She granted Bayntun’s firm the royal appointment of Bookseller to Her Majesty in 1950.
Price: $175
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Inventory Number: 73010
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