Merchantmen-at-Arms
By David W Bone.
Illustrated by Muirhead Bone.
1919.
Limited Edition no.89 out of 160 vellum bound copies.
Original signed etching p.XIV.
Published by Chatto & Windus.
Sir David William Bone CBE (22 June 1874 – 17 May 1959) was a Scottish Commodore and author of nautical fiction. Bone received the Coronation Medal from King George VI in 1937 for his long association with the Merchant Navy. He was appointed a CBE in 1943 and awarded a knighthood in 1946.
Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars.
Foxed.
Sold with all faults.
R1,250