Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 236 pp., maps, b/w illustrations.

Very good or better, with nice bright clean pages throughout. In good dustcover with 2 triangular tears, now protected.

Contents:

'The detailed accounts of the two sloops 'Unity' of Barmouth present a fascinating picture of coastal shipping in the last two decades of the 18th century. They illustrate the cargoes carried, crew wages and provisions, and commodity prices of the period. The introduction by Dr. Lewis Lloyd on Mawddach Sloops and Sloopmasters places the record in its local context and describes for the first time patterns of trading by these small ships and the background of the men who owned, built and sailed them.'