White jacket : or, the world in a man-of-war.
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 3079484
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 20cm. Inscribed in pencil in vol. 2 on flyleaf verso; "A masterly description of life in the American sailing frigate United States 1842. I can testify to its truth from my own experience. I knew the author well P.[?] Erddig Park 6/1900". Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf: "Mrs Yorke" [i.e. Victoria Mary Louisa Cust (1823-95), daughter of Sir Edward Cust and Mary Anne Boode, m. Simon Yorke III of Erddig in 1846]. Also inscribed on t.p. of vol. 2: "Ph. Yorke Erddig Park" [i.e. Philip Yorke II of Erddig (1849-1922), son of Simon Yorke III of Erddig and Victoria Mary Louisa Cust]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full grained blue cloth, blind embossed, gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's advertisements on endpapers.
Makers and roles
Herman Melville (1819-1891)