Book Description

First edition. Rare, OCLC lists BL and Harvard only.
Dealer Notes
Promotional booklet (140 x 180 mm) presenting the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool with a short history of the term “Union Jack”, with directions for folding the three components to obtain the British flag.
Author Mercantile Marine Service Association (Great Britain)
Date [1859]
Binding Decorative card cover with pictorial vignette.
Publisher Liverpool: Mercantile Marine Service Association
Illustrator Lithographed and printed by Benson & Mallett, Castle Street, Liverpool
Condition Former owner’s pencil inscription on cover: “purchased at sea on board steamer “Europa”. One guard sheet replaced by a former owner. Very slight foxing, paper adherences to back cover.
Pages pp. [4], insert of 1 fixed + 2 moveable parts

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