Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain.
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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