The Bluejacket’s Manual : United States Navy (1940)
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The Bluejacket’s Manual : United States Navy (1940)
7 ½ x 5. In English. Published by the United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD, 1940. 10th Edition. Stated. Complete. 784 pp. Profusely illustrated with foldouts. ** Rebound by George Bayntun. ** Polished, full blue morocco with double gilt rules on front and rear boards. Spine with five raised bands. Compartments with double gilt rules as well as elaborate and detailed designs. Red morocco label with bright gilt title. Spine head and tail as well as corners sharp. Gilt foredges. Extremities near fine. Elaborate dentelles with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedowns 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. Title page and text block crisp and clean. Overall, a fine and handsome copy. Trivial external wear and virtually new internally.
The Bluejacket's Manual was a basic handbook used by United States Navy personnel. It was used to teach new recruits about naval procedures. Also used by active sailors, often referred as the "bible" for Navy personnel, providing information about a wide range of Navy topics. While this manual has gone through several editions since its first publication in 1902 – evolving as the US Navy did – this 10th edition was up-dated and published during the first full year of World War II. 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: $195
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Inventory Number: 73010
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