British Flags: Their Early History, Their Development at Sea. Origin of Flag as National Device

British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea; With an Account of the Origin of the Flag as a National Device

by W.G.Perrin, Admiralty Librarian, Secretary of the Navy Records Society, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Printed 1922 by Cambridge, at the University Press, 1st Edition, xii & 208 pages, 13plates,

Illustrated in color by Herbert S. Vaughan, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

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Hard cover, no dust jacket, excellent condition given the age, a few spots of wear on the front cover, edges of the spine slightly worn, a mark of wear on the back cover.

Tight, good binding.

An inscription inside the front cover, previous owner's stamp on the title page, a small stamp on the inside of back cover.

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The text contains numerous illustrative figures, together with detailed notes and an exhaustive index.

This is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of flags, British history and naval history.

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Lieutenant Colonel William Gordon Perrin, OBE (18741931) was an R.A.F. and Navy officer, and the Admiralty librarian from 1908 to 1931. He is most well known for his works on flags; particularly British Flags: Their Early History, and Their Development at Sea which has been described as the standard by which all other flag books are compared and Nelson's Signals in which he established that the flags which had been accepted as denoting Nelson's historic signal at Trafalgar were incorrect.

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