Glasgow Museums: The Ship Models: A History & Complete Illustrated Catalogue

Fantastic collection of pictures and information about shipbuilding on the Clyde told through one of the most important physical records produced to remember them

372 colour pages, 295mm (w) x 285mm (h), The full ships and close up detailing are all well photographed. Relatively text rich first 147 pages, photography there being more general including some of contemporary workshops. Then 220 pages of the catalog itself, most pages showing 3-4 full sized models, recto and verso. Some single models or pairs are shown over 2 full pages, centrefold style. A delight to browse. More than a mere coffee table decoration, it delves into the links between the Clyde dockyards, its builders, the museum and modelling. There are 4 sides of foot notes at the end and 9 sides of index.Chapters:1. Models in shipbuilding2. Professional modelmaking3. Amateur models4. Ship models and exhibitions5. Building the collectionThen the catalogThe collection is of ships from 1727 4th Rates and frigates, Navy Board Model style, to modern container ships and dredgers. Where they have an exhibition history, it is detailed. There is a list of model exhibitions from 1840-1969 at the start of the catalog. The ships themselves have details of their fates, where they are known.This hefty tome makes a memorable present for anyone interested who has room to keep this. It has alot to please all tastes: Historian, Glasgow local, professional, artist, modeller or lay afficionado. Only perhaps the National Maritime museum Catalog can rival it as a beautiful book in the genre, but even that hardly surpasses this.RECOMMENDED

This book was bought as a gift. The book contents are phenomenal. The pictures, descriptions and information about the models is incredibly detailed and complete. Why only 4 stars? Because this book is very large and heavy, thus there are issues with the spine separating from the pages and cover. Perhaps this book should be a 2 vol. set.. The bookseller replaced our copy due to the issues, so I give the sellers 5 stars for their customer service. They were excellent. I feel badly because the book contents deserve 5+stars. But a book is only as good as its binding.

The quality of the pictures and text is excellent. However a lovely book is badly let down by very poor binding which is already showing signs of coming apart after only looking through it a couple of times. Such a good book needs better attention from the publisher

A book full of excellent content but severely let down by poor binding and cover quality. Binding is already coming unstuck, inner cover pages have come unglued and bubbled and book itself is warped. Such a shame as it was an expensive book I purchased for my husband for Christmas and the finish really lets down an otherwise excellent book. Would easily have been a 5 star if not for poor quality finish.

Whilst the price may seem high - this is a specialist substantial book showing superb ship builder models. If you appreciate museum quality ship models and cannot get to Glasgow or Greenwich, this is for you (and me)

This was a gift. The recipient was delighted and described it as really beautiful

Bought for a present for my husbands birthday and it proved to be a very popular choice. It arrived well wrapped and very quickly with no damage to the book at all. A good choice