The World's Lighthouses before 1820

Quarto (29 x 23 cms); pp. 310 + [xxiv]; illustrated. Dark green cloth, gilt, with the excellent, price-clipped, dust-jacket. A fine copy. The author was by profession and ancestry closely connected with seamarks and lighthouses. In 1946 he published an interesting work, 'English Lighthouse Tours, 1801, 1813, 1818', from the diaries of his great-grandfather, Robert Stevenson, a famous lighthouse engineer and builder, who was the grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson.