Watch Officer's Guide : United States Navy (1941)
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Watch Officer's Guide : United States Navy (1941)
by Russell Wilson
7 ½ x 4 ½. In English. Published by United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD, 1941. 3rd Edition. 317 pp. Complete. Illustrated along with a foldout in rear. ** Rebound by George Bayntun. ** Polished, full blue morocco with double gilt rules on front and rear boards. Moderate shelf wear. 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. Elaborate dentelles with marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Previous owner’s bookplate on front pastedown as well as embossed stamp on front fly. Ownership stamp and stenciling on front and back of half title page suggesting use while in service. George Bayntun’s bookplate describing how the book was bound and how to care for the book neatly applied to the front endpaper. Text block crisp and clean. Overall, a solid copy published during an important year.
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, the year this Guide was up-dated and published as its third edition.
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: $125
Shipping: FREE via USPS Media Mail
Inventory Number: 73010
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