British flags, their early history, and their development at sea; with an account of the origin of the flag as a national device
A historical study of British flags at sea by Admiralty librarian W. G. Perrin, published by Cambridge University Press in 1922 for naval historians and antiquarians. Colour plates signed H.S.V. array numbered flags, banners, standards and pennants on plain grounds, giving designers flat heraldic shapes, quartered royal arms, crosses, harps and lions in red, blue and gold.
