BLACK, Martin

G.L. Watson. The Art & Science of Yacht Design

Limerick, Peggy Bawn Press, 2011.

Large square quarto, 495 pages 'with over 300 contemporaneous photographs and illustrations - many never before published'.

Papered boards; a fine copy with the lightly bumped and scuffed dustwrapper.

A study of the life and work of 'the peerless Scottish yacht designer, George Lennox Watson (1851-1904) ... Watson's career spanned a seminal period in industrial and social development, embracing the powerful transition from intuitive and anonymous craft work to technological innovation in custom design, materials and scientific testing' (dustwrapper blurb).