Description
First edition of The Monitor and The Navy Under Steam by Frank M. Bennett.
Octavo, x, 369pp. Three-quarter navy blue morocco, blue cloth boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Bound by Root & Son in London. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, a near fine example. Original cloth cover bound in at rear. Complete with frontispiece and 31 illustrations, a blend of maps, photographs and portraits. (Nevins I, 218) A fine example.
The bookplate in this volume belonged to Thomas W. Lawson (1857-1925), a controversial Boston businessman who promoted and manipulated stocks, primarily in the copper market.
