Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £900 |
THAMES SHIPPING - The United Society of River Thames Ship Caulkers' Book of Prices. [?London: no publisher], November 10, 1824. Square 12mo (105 x 92mm). 20-pages. Contemporary [or ?original] plain brown wrappers, stitched. "This Book of Prices for Caulkers' Work is most respectfully offered to the Master Ship Builders of the River Thames, as a general Statement for the Trade to work by; as it is considered to be a fair Valuation of Labour between Master and Man, by the United Society of River Thames Ship Caulkers" (printed note at the front). RARE. With A Scale of Prices for Job Work, On Old Ships, Carefully Arranged and Compiled, by Nathaniel G. Clark. John Purdy. Richard W. Marks. Thomas J. Howes. James Mallett. Richard Tucker. For the Shipwrights of the River Thames (London, W. Wilson, 1825, 8vo, tables, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked, inscribed in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, "With the Best wishes of the [illegible word], James [?]Ronald, Esq, [?]N.A."; with the year "1871" added beneath in another, later, hand). (2)