A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing. de Kemp, Dixon - 1886

London: Horace Cox, 1886. xi, 676 pp. b/w folding plates, ills.

Expanded fifth edition, this work is a compendium of American and English yacht designs, equipment, and rigs (including canoes). Now with 100 full page plates, many of which are folding, hundreds of text illustrations, and a 130 page illustrated dictionary of terms and general information. As thorough an explication of 19th century yacht sailing and designing as exists in one volume. Toy calls it, A classic work by a central figure in British yachting... Toy 2152. Morris & Howland p. 76. Very good condition in original cloth, rebacked to match.