- TWO PRIVATELY PUBLISHED COMPANION ACCOUNTS OF YACHT VOYAGES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - ILLUSTRATED WITH 51 REAL SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHS AND TWO COLOUR MAPS -

BEALE (Ernest Child, birdkeeper and founder of Beale Park, 1868-1967).

'The Voyage of The Angela from Marseille to Shoreham 1931' WITH 'There and Back 1934' [2 volumes]. 

(n.p.): Privately published, n.d. [circa 1931 and 1934, as per titles]. First (only) editions. Two volume set. First volume - 95pp, interspersed with a double-page colour lithographic map showing route and 20 unnumbered leaves with 26 mounted and captioned real silver gelatin photographs, pasted recto or verso to leaves, of various sizes, but mainly 14cm x 8cm, up to 15.5cm x 11.2cm). Second volume - 70pp with 25 real silver gelatin photos mounted to recto or verso of some text pages and 1 single-page colour lithographic map showing route. Red crushed morocco bindings with gilt lettering on upper covers. Inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Thick, high quality paper stock used in both volumes. Size: 4to - each volume 28cm x 21.5cm (with combined depth of 5.5cm).

Very Good condition. Spine of one volume a bit faded and foxed. A few minor scuffs or blemishes to boards, but generally bindings well-preserved. Photographs very well preserved, with only a few instances of minor fading and / or age-toning. Pages generally clean and bright with just very occasional light foxing to a handful of pages. One gathering of pages in the first volume is working loose. Gutter just starting to pull at one place in 1934 volume. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.

A scarce and luxurious two-volume set of these privately-published companion accounts of voyages around the Mediterranean in Englishman Ernest Beale's schooner 'The Angela', one in 1931 and the other in 1934. 

Both volumes are illustrated with real silver gelatin photographs (26 in the first, and 25 in the second). Each starts with a colour map of the route, a photograph of The Angela in harbour, and a page giving details of the yacht and the names of crew members and passengers. 

The Angela was 115.1 ft in length and was built by Camper & Nicholsons Ltd. in 1896. It had three state rooms, each with private bath, dining, drawing and smoke rooms. The passengers on the 1931 voyage are listed as William and Mrs. Edgecumbe Rendle and Reginald Evelyn Child Beale, and on the second voyage as Vivian Curtayne Stratton, Harold Child Beale and Reginald Evelyn Child Beale. There were 10 officers and crew on the first voyage and 8 on the second.