Fighting Ships 1914 With a Special Chapter on the Progress of Marine Engineering by Charles De Grave Sells, M. Inst, CE de Fred T. Jane - 1914

E-138: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.. Good. 1914. Third Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. , Ltd, 1914. 634 pgs. Profusely illustrated with photographs, plans and silhouettes. Third Edition. Bound in black cloth boards with gilt titles present to the front board and the spine. Lacks spine (stangely common with this edition). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. For any wargamer or modeler, there is no better reference to a period of naval history than "Jane's Fighting Ships". Jane's gives you what the admiralty BELIEVED was the best current information for a period, and was often 'spot on' in their assessments. Jane's gives you photos, line drawings, or artists pictures of the ship classes..together, and with all this information one can model most any ship covered by the books. Jane's has the added bonus of having published in their annuals, selected writings of naval authorities on the latest (for the period) technology and developments in ship-building, armaments, and communications. E-138; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 634 pages .