From naval cadet to admiral : half-a-century of naval service and sport in many parts of the world / by Admiral Sir Robert Hastings Harris … ; with twelve black-and-white plates.
Harris, Robert Hastings, Sir, 1843-
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3096822
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [2], 420 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "12/net". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Purple ink-stamp: ‘S.Y. Sapphire.’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; triple blind fillet to form an outer border on upper board; double blind fillet to form an inner border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: trident and naval crown with laurel wreath; gilt stamped naval crown and laurel wreath on spine; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Harris, Robert Hastings, Sir, 1843-, author