8vo. xiv, 373pp. With half-title, a photogravure portrait frontispiece of the author and 15 further photographic plates. Modern red cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. A trifle rubbed. A presentation copy, with the author's presentation bookplate to FEP, reading 'To Sir J. C. H. Seale Bart., With kind regards from Agnes E. Weston, Royal Sailors Rest, Portsmouth. May 1917'. Light scattered spotting.

A presentation copy of the memoirs of Dame Agnes Elizabeth Weston (1840 –1918), Naval philanthropist and superintendent of the Royal Naval Temperance Society, who for 20 years lived and worked amongst sailors, contributing significantly to Naval reform.

This copy was presented to Sir John Carteret Hyde Seale, 4th Baronet (1881–1964); the presentation bookplate notes its inscribed location as the Royal Sailors' Rest, Portsmouth, one of three Royal Sailors' Rests co-founded by Weston herself.