WARREN, Mark D. (editor)

Distinguished Liners from 'The Shipbuilder'. Volume 1: 1906-1914. [Together with] ... Volume 2: 1907-1914

New York, Blue Riband Publications, Inc., 1995 and 1997.

Small quarto, two volumes, 227 and 314 pages with numerous illustrations (including a total of 64 plans and 81 diagrams, with over a dozen transverse cutaways) plus 41 folding plans, 9 pages of colour plates, 2 two-colour advertisements (including a folding one for the 'Titanic') and 4 facsimile perforated tissue subscription forms.

Gilt-lettered cloth; a fine set with the fine dustwrappers.

Compiled by the editor, with a new introduction in each volume. Between them they reproduce the text of 94 'passenger vessels of various size and importance that were originally published in "The Shipbuilder" prior to 1915'. These include the 'Titanic', 'Olympic', 'Ceramic', 'Lusitania', 'Mauretania', 'California', 'Bismarck', 'Franconia', 'Laconia', 'Oceania', 'Hesperian', 'Aquitania', 'Britannic', 'Imperator', and 'Vaterland'. [2 items].