Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
"Abraham Lincoln edition."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index.
Also issued online.
England's first look -- Henry VIII, King of the English sea -- Life afloat in Tudor times -- Elizabethan England -- Hawkins and the fighting traders -- Drake's beginning -- Drake's "encompassment of all the worlde" -- Drake clips the wings of Spain -- Drake and the Spanish Armada -- "The one and the fifty-three" -- Raleigh and the vision of the West -- Drake's end