BATTLESHIPS IN ACTION. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1969. Octavo, two volumes, cloth. Facsimile reprint of the 1926 first edition. Wilson's classic work, IRONCLADS IN ACTION: A SKETCH OF NAVAL WARFARE FROM 1855 TO 1895 ... was first published in 1896 and later revised, This is a reprint follows the 1926 revised, expanded text re-titled BATTLESHIPS IN ACTION. "Of a mild, retiring, unassuming character, Wilson combined a scholarly disposition with a prodigious capacity for work. He possessed an encyclopedic knowledge and enthusiasm for the navy, and this was reflected in the first major book he published, IRONCLADS IN ACTION (1896). This two-volume study, in its many different editions ... for more than thirty years remained a standard work of reference." - DNB. A fine copy. (#144340).

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