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Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain.

Name: Origin of the Union Jack of Great Britain.
Author: Mercantile Marine Service Association (Great Britain)

Book Description

First edition. Rare, OCLC lists BL and Harvard only.

Dealer Notes

Promotional booklet (140 x 180 mm) presenting the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool with a short history of the term “Union Jack”, with directions for folding the three components to obtain the British flag.

Author Mercantile Marine Service Association (Great Britain)

Date [1859]

Binding Decorative card cover with pictorial vignette.

Publisher Liverpool: Mercantile Marine Service Association

Illustrator Lithographed and printed by Benson & Mallett, Castle Street, Liverpool

Condition Former owner’s pencil inscription on cover: “purchased at sea on board steamer “Europa”. One guard sheet replaced by a former owner. Very slight foxing, paper adherences to back cover.

Pages pp. [4], insert of 1 fixed + 2 moveable parts

Price: £75.00

Offered by Christian F Verbeke Rare Books

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