Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton, London, No Date.  Hard cover, 87 pages.  Former School reader.  Red boards with black lettering and illustration on front; corners and spine ends worn with some losses to cloth; wear and some tears to cloth at rear spine edge.  Boards show some soil/stains; binding cracked in spots but all pages secure.  No jacket.  Book numbers inked on front paste-down, School info inked on front end paper.  Colour frontis; some thumb smudges, occasional pencil, some soil and age spots.  Illustrated with colour and black & white plates as well as black & white illustrations in text.  ‘We see, therefore, that for trade, for pleasure, and for safety in time of war, we need ships.  A big battle-ship is a very fine sight; just now, however, we are more interested in trade than in fighting, so I think you will like best to see something of the building of a vessel in which goods and passengers are carried.’ (from Introduction)