MARITIME - The Searchlight. H.M.S. "Lion."

MARITIME - The Searchlight. H.M.S. "Lion." ... For Private Circulation only. [No place: no publisher], October 1st, 1915 - April 1st, 1916. 3 issues bound in one, 4to (300 x 203mm). Wood-engraved illustrations. EXCEPTIONALLY FINELY BOUND in navy blue crushed morocco gilt by Riviere and Son, the spine lettered in gilt ("H.M.S. Lion's Searchlight") with gilt coat-of-arms and 5 raised bands, the dentelles with anchor motifs stamped in gilt at each corner, uncut, original stiff wrappers bound in. RICHLY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED. The volume contains, in addition to the printed material, the following: 1) the striking original full-page cover design in pen-and-ink of "H.M.S. Lion" at full steam, initialled "E.C.B."; 2) the original full-page pen-and-ink drawing of [?]Captain Alfred E. M. Chatfield standing on deck beside Horatio Nelson, captioned "Have patience, I waited two years for Villeneuve"; 3) an original pen-and-ink design for a banner, showing a fleet of ships heading towards a rising sun, marked up in pencil for printing; 4) a 5-page autograph manuscript of the poem "The Soul of a Ship" signed [?] by Captain Chatfield (but which is uncredited in printed form on p. 5 of the first issue); 5) an original pen-and-ink and watercolour caricature of Viscount Bassett, unsigned; 6) an original pen-and-ink circular title for the January 1915 issue; 7) an original pen-and-ink drawing, unsigned, captioned "Have you done your bit?", marked-up in pencil for printing [but not apparently printed]; 8) printer's proofs for a caricature captioned  "A.L.H."; 9) an original full-page pen-and-ink drawing of a lion, unsigned, captioned, "Looking for their next meal"; 10) various letters and receipts from G. H. Barwick, Department of Printed Books, British museum ("I am particularly gratified to get this, and shall be very glad of any further publications of the Navy of this kind ..."); 11) a fine original pen-and-ink and watercolour portrait [subject unidentified], unsigned, captioned, "Per mare, per terram"; 12) an original pen-and-ink design for a tail-piece. Loosely-inserted are various other ephemeral items relating to the printing of the periodical and to the ship.