International. Percussion Guns & Rifles, By D.w. Bailey Archive 781 gross register tons (GRT)

781 gross register tons (GRT)

smooth finished butterscotch-coloured leather tab stitched in place on the underside at the right end

maker marked in blue on the inside of the bowl

The order is somewhat cryptic

integrated hinge

International. Percussion Guns & Rifles, By D.w. Bailey Archive 781 gross register tons (GRT)This is an extremely well preserved edition of Percussion Guns & Rifles: An Illustrated Reference Guide to Muzzle Loading Percussion Guns and Rifles of the Nineteenth Century, by D. W. Bailey. It is constructed of a heavy card stock binding and retains its original glossed paper stock dust jacket, with the cover bearing a black and white photograph of rifles circumscribed by author and title. The reverse features images of other reference volumes