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Although hard to come by it is an excellent book. Perrin was the Admiralty Librarian. The Chapter titles are:

• The origin of the flag and it’s development up to the end of the thirteenth century
• Early English, Scottish and Irish flags
• The Union Flags and Jacks
• Flags of Command
• Colours of Distinction
• Flag signals
• Ceremonial and other usages.

The Decouvertes Gallimard series is usually well-researched, written and illustrated. M. Pastoureau is the French specialist of heraldry and symbolics (he also published books on the symbolics of pig and apple, and recently started a series on colours with blue).
Ivan Sache, 19 Jan 2002

This book is a dictionnary of all the state emblems that France has and had. You can find in this book some informations about the «tricolour flag», «the white flag», «the red flag», «the blue colour», «the white colour», «the red colour» as well as about «bees», «eagle», «rooster», «anthem», etc... For those who can understand French, this is a valuable and very interesting book, since Michel Pastoureau is a specialist of emblems and colours at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris.
Pascal Vagnat, 23 Feb 1999

I’ve just found that the author used to write articles about flags in Model Shipwright, a quarterly magazine published by Conway Maritime Press of Greenwich. The ones that I happened to find were 1974 and 1979, and were about Trinity House flags, Revenue Cutter flags and the WW1 signaling code based on the Union Jack. I don’t know whether these were subjects covered in the book.
David Prothero, 22 Jun 1997