Collins, no date. Ca. 191- reprint (first was London: Pearson, 1901). Dark red bevel-edged decorated cloth stamped in black, yellow, green, and gilt. Colour pictorial endpapers. viii, (389) + (3) pp ads + colour frontispiece and illustrated title + two black and white plates. Cheap paper browned; 1912 ink inscription to verso of front free endpaper; spine very slightly age darkened; damp stain to fore edge of front cover; small light spots to rear cover; an unworn, mainly VG copy otherwise. Essays on various nautical subjects and adventures by the author of THE CRUISE OF THE CACHALOT.