Books by Thomas Smith

One of the best handbooks on Iron Shipbuilding. Easy to understand, this books trades with all aspects of traditional shipbuilding, such as keels, stern frames, stems, rudders, frames and angles, floor plates, stringers, bulkheads, sheerstrakes, beams etc.

Little is known about Thomas Smith, the author of this 1833 history of St Marylebone in London, where he was born and had lived for thirty-six years. The illustrated book describes the boundaries of the parish, its buildings, and some of the famous people who had lived in the district.

Sir Thomas Smith (1513-77) was a humanist scholar, colonialist and diplomat, and also held a prominent position in the court of Queen Elizabeth. First published in 1906, this book contains the original 1583 text of De republica Anglorum, Smith's pioneering study of the English social, judicial and political systems.