Sailing ships of war, 1800-1860 : including the transition to steam / by Sir Alan Moore, bt. ... ; with illustrations from engravings, drawings and paintings in the Macpherson Collection.
Sir Alan Hilary Moore (1882-1959)
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100841
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, [2], 78, [2] p., [1], 90 leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; fol. Copy no. 369. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "72/net." Pencil date on rear pastedown: "9/26". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; double gilt rule (thick and thin) to form an outer border on upper board; gilt lettering on upper board and spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Sir Alan Hilary Moore (1882-1959), author Arthur George Holdsworth Macpherson (1875-1942), collector