THE ROMANCE OF SUBMARINE ENGINEERING BY THOMAS CORBIN 1913 FIRST EDITION LEATHER BOUND BY RELFE

[CORBIN, THOMAS W.]. The Romance of Submarine Engineering: Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-Technical Language of the Construction of Submarine Boats, the Salving of Great Ships, the Recovery of Sunken Treasures, the Building of Breakwaters and Docks and Many other Feats of Engineering Beneath the Surface of the Water. London: Seeley, Service, & Co., London, 1913.

FIRST EDITION. Leather-bound, hardcover, octavo (19.5cm x 13cm x 4.5cm), pp. 316. English text, with fifty-four illustrations and diagrams throughout. Handsomely bound in full calf gilt by Relfe Bros. Ltd., London, marbled page edges and endpapers, half-title, frontispiece plus 23 leaves of plates, 30 diagrams in the text, printed footnotes, rear index in double columns. Condition: FINE. A remarkable tight and clean copy. Prize plate to front pastedown.