The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783 - 1860, By Samuel Eliot Morison, With Illustrations, Boston And NewYork, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, Copyright 1921, Seventh Impression April 1930, in a slipcase. 3/4 bound, with five raised bands, six gilt-ruled compartment with gilt tiles and gilt decorations on the spine, blue cloth, blue endpapers, the half-title, a frontis portrait of Donald McKay, Master Builder of Clipper Ships, the title page, an "In Memoriam" page, a one-page Preface and a Contents page, a five-page list of illustrations, 373 pages of text, numerous black and white plates, and the top edge is gilt. Samuel Eliot Morison (1887 - 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime and American history. He taught at Harvard University for 40 years and won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). He also served in the navy at the behest of President Roosevelt and published the History of United States Naval Operations in World War II over a fifteen year period (1947 to 1962) and the USS Constitution Museum gives the annual Samuel Eliot Morison Award to a person whose public service has enhanced the image of the USS Constitution and who reflects the best of Samuel Eliot Morison: artful scholarship, patriotic pride, and eclectic interest in the sea and things maritime (per Wikipedia)The book is 8vo. and measures 9 x 6 1/2 in. wide, a handsome book with a tight binding and clean plates and pages, just a whisper of rubbing along the bottom edge of the back cover, and the slipcase has wear at the tips, on one front edge, and a split along the backside of the slipcase that you don't see from the front. #1687 #38