The Admiralty
RODGER, N.A.M.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Terence Dalton Lavenham, 1979
Stock code: 32650
Price: £78.00
8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates on 24; white cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
Published in the series 'Offices of State' edited by M.M. Reese, this is (surprisingly) the first general history of one of the major institutions of the British establishment. Dr. Rodger's cogent account covers the period from the formation of the first Board of 1628 to the creation of the MOD in 1964. SCARCE.