Thomas Doggett Coat & Badge (300 Years of History) (Signed limited edition)

The first printing of 2015, signed by Robert John Cottrell

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First edition, first printing. Limited to 100 copies (this being no 88). Large paperback. 29.5 × 20.5cm, 493pp.

Signed by Robert John Cottrell to the limitation page.

Full title: Thomas Doggett Coat & Badge (300 Years of History); Did Thomas Doggett Die a Pauper?

A fine, meticulously detailed historical record and comprehensive register of the world’s oldest continuously run rowing race, compiled from primary archival sources, river parish records, and watermen’s bindings. Cottrell bypasses standard sporting summaries to present an exhaustive, year-by-year chronicle of the Coat and Badge from its inauguration in 1715 through to its 300th anniversary in 2015. Bringing a genealogist’s precision to Thames maritime history, the author documents the individual competitors, trial heats, re-rows, and controversial verdicts, while systematically challenging long-standing errors in the official traditions of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen—most notably establishing the identity of the race’s hitherto unrecorded first winner, John Obey.

Beyond the race logs, the text serves as an invaluable biographical directory for the social history of the River Thames, tracing the complex family lineages, apprenticeships, and subsequent lives of the young London watermen who contested the four-mile course from London Bridge to Chelsea. Richly illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs, facsimiles of contemporary news sheets, archival manuscripts, maps, and race ephemera, this dense, 450-page reference work is an essential authority for Thames local historians, rowing archivists, and researchers of London’s river trades.

Condition

This copy is in very good condition.

ISBN

0951697404

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