It's only small, a little smaller than A5 size and 86 pages. Yellow board covers, fabric spine, obviously a PR / advertising vehicle for the Gourock Ropeworks Co Ltd of Port Glasgow, sold or given away at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924, cover price Two shillings (remember them?). Quite a lot of adverts for Gourock products (Rope,Canvas and tools) with some good technical tables on rope and chain breaking strains and weights, including comparisons of different natural fibre ropes, iron and steel wire, and cordage. Sections on: Rope Consruction; Knots etc on a ropes end; Knots etc on a bight; Knots, Bends etc for uniting ropes; Knots formed on ropes by their own strands; Splices; Wire splicing; Purchases (as in block and tackle etc); Whippings and various miscellania; Handling and splicing wire rope; Fully illustrated with many line drawings (mostly accurate) and some photographs (darkening with age). Almost a technical "Aide Memoire" for the Sailing Mariner.