The British Battle Fleet, Volume 1 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

John Frederick Thomas Jane (1865–1916) was the founding editor of a series of reference books on warships and aircraft. As a teenager, he took an interest in sketching warships and became the illustrator of multiple scientific romances. He is the author of All the World’s Fighting Ships (1898), and novels To Venus in Five Seconds (1897) and The Violet Flame (1899).