The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard.
"No Doubt, the most interesting part of our visit here to-day consists in looking at the great ships and learning a little of how they are built": Arthur O. Cooke's The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard
The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard.
COOKE, Arthur O.
$975.00
Item Number: 104861
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, c. 1912.
First edition of Arthur O. Cooke’s The World at Work: A Day in a Shipyard. Small octavo, original illustrated boards with pictorial pastedown, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with engravings from photographs, three full-page colored plates including frontispiece, mechanical charts. In near fine condition. Rare.
Part of his World at Work series, Cooke's A Day in the Shipyard offers a detailed tour of a large British Shipyard, offering detailed explanations of the building and mechanics of the ship's frame and propeller, and tours of the shipyard, workshop, and architectural drawing room.
