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The Royal Navy
A History From the Earliest Times to the Present

by

 Sir W. Laird Clowes, Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred Thayer Mahan

Hardcover. 4to. Sampson Low, Marston and Company, London. 1897-1903. Orginially issued in 5 volumes and then explanded into 7 volumes. Volume I, 698 pages, published 1897; Volume II, 609 pages, (1898); Volume III, 593 pages (1898); Volume IV, 624 pages (1899); Volume V, 623 pages ((1900); Volume VI, 592 pages (1901); Volume VII, 627 pages (1903) with indexes in each volume. Edited by Sir William Laird Clowes with the assistance of, among others, then President Theodore Roosevelt and Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan. Roosevelt contributed the article on the War of 1812 at sea in Volume VII.

Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt titles present. Top edge gilt. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. No ownership marks present. Light foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

This major history of the Royal Navy from earliest times to the close of the Victorian era was originally intended to be complete in five volumes, then six volumes were envisaged, and finally a seventh volume was produced in order to bring the study down to the death of Queen Victoria and to include recent naval actions during the South African War and the Boxer Rebellion in China. The seven volumes are illustrated with hundreds of photogravure plates, photographs, maps, charts, etc. As a source of reference on the biographical aspects of British naval officers, the histories of individual warships, countless naval battles, single-ship actions and expeditions of the Royal Navy, Clowes's work is incomparable. The author carefully chose his illustrations, taking only from authoritative originals with proven historical value. He gives full particulars of every officer on the Navy List in 1763 and of every officer to have reached Flag Rank thereafter. Appendices provide statistical details of every ship lost by the Royal Navy from 1660, and every enemy man-o'-war captured by the Royal Navy from 1714. The names of the captains in each case are also provided. Although strong in every period, it is particularly so for the 18th and 19th centuries, and especially for the Nelson era and the Napoleonic Wars.