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- The Naval Officers Manual
The Naval Officers Manual
Glascock, Capt. W. N.
Parker, Furnival & Parker, ( 1848), London
21 cm. x, 415 pp. b/w line ills.
Price: $125
Glascock was a well-traveled naval officer who devoted his periods on half-pay to a literary career. Prior to this work he wrote four fictional books about naval service which the DNB calls stupid enough… but… interesting as social sketches of naval life. The present work proved, as it was meant to be, a useful manual for young officers, and was successful enough to pass through several editions until 1850. It describes in detail, and with occasional illustrations, the shipboard tasks of each rank in the service – gunner, carpenter, boatswain, surgeon, all get their instructions, as do captain and lieutenant, etc. A helpful index organizes these tasks by rating. This is the second edition of a work first published in 1836, “the whole recently revised, amended, and enlarged… to which is added, a notice on steam and steam ships.” It combines the original two volumes into one. Bound in publisher’s blind stamped and gilt cloth. The backstrip, partially perished, is laid down. Contents clean.
