The Royal Navy . A history from the earliest times to the present by Wm. Laird Clowes ... Assisted by Sir Clements Markham ... In five volumes.
Sir William Laird Clowes (1856-1905)
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
268 x 203 mm; 62 mm (thickness)
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3093550
Summary
Bibliographic description
5v.,plates . ill..,maps,ports.. . 26cm.. Imperfect: Vol. III only. With manuscript annotations in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928). With several page corners turned down. With the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society (April 1912) laid in at p. 495: includes an article on Naval conditions of the American Revolution with GOT's pencil annotations.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Publisher's cloth, gilt tops.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Sir William Laird Clowes (1856-1905)