A collection of multiple hardcover volumes of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, an essential maritime reference work. The group contains various editions including the Register of Ships, the Appendix, and the List of Shipowners. These volumes are bound in diverse coloured cloth and textured boards, including red, black, blue, and grey, with gilt-stamped titles and dates to the spines. Several volumes feature hand-written white-ink library markings and adhesive labels, suggesting provenance from a maritime or institutional library. The books are in quarto format. Visible dates on the spines include 1949, 1950-51 (Volume I, united with the British Corporation Register), 1955-56, 1956-57, 1960-61 (Volume III), 1961-62 (Volume II Appendix), 1964-65 (Volume II Appendix), 1969-70 (M-Z), 1970-71 Appendix, 1977-78 (A-L), 1979-80 (L-Z), and 1982-83 (A-G).
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