Sailing ships : the story of their development from the earliest times to the present day / by E. Keble Chatterton ; with a hundred and thirty illustrations.
Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944)
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3006029
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxi, [1], 361, [3] p., plates : ill., col. front., plans ; 8vo. Errata slip tipped in before contents page. Pencil codes on front pastedown: "375 / net / 4X= / 12/9". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.'. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; gilt roll (rope design) to form an outer border on upper board; coloured pictorial paper inlay (sailing ship) on upper board within rectangular frame of gilt and blind fillets; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: two crossed anchors surrounded by rope; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt stamped anchor with entwined rope on spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Edward Keble Chatterton (1878-1944), author