DESCRIPTION: Very scarce 14-page booklet containing the Rules and Regulations for the Marine School operated at Kingston-Upon-Hull by the Trinity House for the education of the sons of seamen from that port. On period wove paper.
The Trinity House was originally a guild of shipmen and mariners established by Henry VIII in 1517 to support and expand shipping in England. Later the Trinity House was tasked with maintaining buoys, lighthouses, and aids to navigation on the English coast as well as licensing ship's pilots. (Oxford Companion to Ships and The Sea, Peter Kemp, ed. Oxford University Press. London, 1976, p. 889.)
Printed in 1849 for R.T. Cussons, Lowgate, Hull.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1849
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: England
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Very good.
Thin blue canvas-covered boards. Pages clean and intact. Altogether a fine artifact.
COLORING: None
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 4
" x
5 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
PRICE: $195
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