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FOLKARD, H.C.
The Sailing Boat: A Treatise on English and Foreign Boats, Descriptive of the Various Forms of Boats and Sails of Every Nation; with Practical Directions for Sailing, Managment, &c.
Henry Coleman Folkard (1827-1914) created one of the major works about the construction, characteristics, and operation of 19th-century sailing boats. The detailed descriptions of different boat types are supplemented by numerous illustrations and a chapter with nautical vocabulary. An interesting work illustrated throughout is useful in identifying mid-nineteenth-century vessels. Still a standard book for readers interested in classic boatbuilding.
- Published
- London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1863.
- Plates
- 10
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1863.
- Ref
- 438
Third Edition. 8vo (13 x 19cm). Half-Leather. Very Good / No Dust Jacket. pp. ix [3] 317 + publisher's adverts hand-coloured frontispiece + 18 further engraved plates, some 10 of which are hand-coloured and complete, all in accordance with the list of illustrations; numerous in-text woodcuts. Contemporary half leather binding with gilt lettering to the spine and marble paper-covered boards; condition very good with some general wear and rubbing to extremities; leather a little chipped to head of the spine. Contents clean and MS signature of 'Sir Charles Harvey' to the front pastedown; a little spotting/foxing minimal wear. A very good tight copy. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Feejee Islanders' Sailing Canoe. 2. Yarmouth Yawl. 3. Sliding Gunter. 4. Revolving Clipper. 5. Boats for Wild-Fowl Shooting: The Gunning-Punt. 6. Shooting Boat. 7. Northumberland Prize Life Boat. 8. A Squall. 9. Hoppo's Boat. 10. Bombay Dinghy.
