Antique steel engraving after original design by William Baden Powell, Esq. for A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailingedited by Dixon Kemp, a British naval architect, was a founder of the Yacht Racing Association (now the Royal Yachting Association) and at one time its secretary. He was a founder of Lloyd's Register of Yachts.
Snarley Yow was built by Culzean Yacht Works, Maypole, in 1882.
Published by London Horace Cox., London c.1888
Condition= originally folded 2 times, hand tinted, small tears and discolouration along paper edges.
Page size = 38 x 26cm (15.2 x 10.4 inch)
This 6th edition (1888) "includes new Designs and the Canoeing section has been thoroughly Revised & Re-written by W. Baden-Powell & E. B. Tredwen. Commission of the Admiralty have been please to direct that thes designs whould be issued to the ships of the Royal Navy"
Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scout Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-Powell