A group of seventeen (17) marine based hardcover & soft cover research texts, to include: Dictionary of Sea Painters (E.H.H. Archibald), The Dictionary of British Watercolour - Artists up to 1920 - Volume III (H.L. Mallalieu), British 19th Century Marine Painting (Denys Brook-Hart), British Watercolour Artists - Volume II - The Plates (L.L. Mallalieu), A Celebration of Marine Art (R.S.M.A.), Passenger Liners (Laurence Dunn), Hidden Talents - A Dictionary of Neglected Artists Working 1880-1950 (Jeremy Wood), The Pierhead Painters Naive Ship - Portrait Painters 1750-1950 (Roger Finch), Liners in Art (Vard), British Painters of the Coast and Sea - A History and Gazetteer (Charles Hemming), 20th Century British Marine Painting (Denys Brook-Hart), Marine Painting (William Gaunt), Dutch Painters of the 19th Century (Marius), British Watercolour Artists - Up to 1920 - Volume I The Text (H.L. Mallalieu), The Dictionary of Victorian Painters (Christopher Wood), Concise Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the National Maritime Museum, Thomas Bush Hardy 1842-1897 (David H. Kirby-Welch & Al.).