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Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Large folio. Bound in 2 volumes: reports 1-10 and 11-17. Most reports have lengthy appendices and there is an extensive index at the end. Complete set of 17 reports running to around 700-800 pages. Report 11 has two folding plates showing current and proposed midship sections of a 74 Gun Ship on one plate and a 38 Gun Frigate on the other. Contemporary calf, marbled boards, all boards now detached, spines flaking. Red title labels gilt. First few leaves of second vol (Report 11) with a few repaired tears. The books ideally need rebinding, but in their present state comprise a complete working set. Contents are very clean with good margins and text blocks are tight. Very heavy: nearly 10kg packed. UK postage is included in the default shipping rate.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. John Campbell; F. Gillett; John C. Frohn (illustratore). First edition. Three charming twentieth-century cloth works of fiction on motoring and cars for female motorists by multiple authors, with illustrations. All the first edition in the publisher's original cloth. A pleasing set catered towards female motorists of the period. This set contains: Three Girls and a Car. Undated, dated 1959 from a copy held at the British Library. Illustrated by John Campbell, with a frontispiece (loosely inserted).A Motor Scout in Flanders. Undated, dated 1915 from a copy held at the British Library. Illustrated by F. Gillett.The Lady of the Blue Motor. Undated, dated c.1907 from a copy held at the British Library. With a colour frontispiece by John C. Frohn.With a contemporary presentation ink inscription to the front free end papers of Three Girls and a Carand A Motor Scout in Flanders. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally, very smart with shelf wear to the extremities. Bumping to spine head and tails. The odd mark to the boards. Front hinge cracked and strained but firm to Blue Motor. Internally, firmly bound. Frontispiece loose to Three Girls and a Car. Pages clean and bright with spotting to first and last few leaves. With a contemporary presentation ink inscription to the front free end papers of Three Girls and a Carand A Motor Scout in Flanders. Very Good Indeed. book.