Navy League Pocket Map of the British Empire Date of Publication_c.1760 revised English edition contains posthumous

revised English edition contains posthumous defences by Wood’s nephew

The collation of plates includes the map end-papers in each volume

By HW Parish of the Royal Artillery and J Barrow

while the latter may be incomplete (collation given as pp

Original cloth

Navy League Pocket Map of the British Empire Date of Publication_c.1760 revised English edition contains posthumousFounded in 1894, on the cusp of the Anglo German naval arms race, the Navy League was a pressure group seeking to influence politicians and popular opinion (including the nations youth) in the cause of maintaining a powerful navy to protect British interests overseas through trade and empire. The borders of this map show flags and badges of the British Empire, and a smaller map at the foot charts its historical growth. At the bottom is a series of