Hardcover. Condition: No Dust Jacket, showing chipping to edges and signs of cover wear  Wm McDowell (illustrator). Illustrated paper sides with cloth spine strip. Illustrated with 8 colour plates and b/w ills. Undated but British Library gives 1948 which ties with illustrator. The famous William McDowell ~ Painter, draughtsman and commercial artist, born in the shipbuilding town of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, who on leaving school was apprenticed in the drawing office of the engineering firm Vickers. He was to become a member of the Institute of Naval Architects. Shortly after World War I McDowell left naval architecture to become a full-time artist, producing murals for the liner Mauretania and other vessels, eventually settling in Wallasey, Cheshire. Many of his own paintings were of historical or maritime subjects, shown at the Walker Art Gallery and elsewhere. In 1919, his picture Stern all-strike! was included in the RA Summer Exhibition. During World War II he was commissioned in the Royal Naval Scientific Service