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SHIP MODELS: THEIR PURPOSE AND DEVELOPMENT FROM 1650 TO THE PRESENT

by Brian Lavery; Simon Stephens

Published by Zwemmer. 1st. 1995

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich houses one of the most celebrated collections of ship models in the world and its riches are presented here, from the magnificent Navy Board models of Samuel Pepy's day through replicas of frigates, steamships, clippers, battleships, cargo and passenger ships, to aircraft carriers and submarines. Large format. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & colour photos. 256 pages including index.

SIGNED by both authors. Boards clean. Light pencil erasure mark to blue front endpaper (small). Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby.

ISBN: 0302006540
Stock no. 1830763

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Purposes and Historical Development
  • 1 Reasons for Making Models
  • 2 Models as Historical Sources
  • 3 The Origins of Scale Modelmaking
  • 4 Techniques of Modelmaking
  • 5 Modelmakers
  • 6 Ship models and Art
  • 7 The National Collection
  • 8 Other Collections of Models
  • 9 Models in Museums
  • Part Two: Types of Model
  • 10 Navy Board Models
  • 11 The 'Georgian' Model
  • 12 Rigged Models
  • 13 Block and Half-Block Models
  • 14 Builders' Models
  • 15 Models and Ship Designs
  • 16 Structural Models
  • 17 Prisoner-of-War Models
  • 18 Waterline and Scenic Models
  • 19 Sectional Models
  • 20 Recreational Models
  • 21 Models of Fittings
  • 22 Topographical Models
  • 23 Exhibition Models
  • Looking Forward
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Part Three: Catalogue of the Ship Models in the Collection of the National Maritime Museum
  • The Catalogue
  • Catalogue Contents
  • Ship Name Index
  • Object Reerence Number Index

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