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Robertson Revisited Supplement 2011
The original "History of the Ship Letters of the British Isles" by Alan W Robertson first appeared in 1955, amended by subsequent supplements by the author until 1964. These supplements were page-numbered in a somewhat idiosyncratic way so that it subsequently became almost impossible to know if one had a complete copy or not. In 1973 Harry Hayes produced 100 copies of the original book, incorporating all of the original Robertson supplements, but it has to be said the quality of reproduction was not great. When Alan died the copyright was acquired by Colin Tabeart, who then began recording additions to the original work sent in by collector friends from around the world. In 1993 James Bendon produced a reprint (at 80% original size) of what is almost certainly a full copy of the original, plus all the Robertson supplements, by permission of the copyright holder. In 1997 Bendon published Tabeart’s Robertson Revisited[1], which provided an invaluable update to the original work by Alan W Robertson in an easily accessible one volume format, including all the original data and incorporating all new information since the original author’s last update in 1964.
The society is privileged to be given the author's permission to provide the 2011 supplement to his 1997 publication in the form of an electronic download file available to all collectors interested in this field.
This supplement brings the 1997 edition up to date with over 60 pages of new and updated information, including colour and black & white images. As Colin says in the introduction: "... it is now about 15 years since I wrote Robertson Revisited. During the intervening years correspondents from all over the world have been sending me new bits of information, and the time now seems ripe to put these together in the form of a Supplement to the original book".
Robertson Revisted Supplement 2011 by Colin Tabeart, download:
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References
[1] Tabeart, Colin. Robertson Revisited, 1997,
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