The golden age of sail : Indiamen, packets and clipper ships / by Frank C. Bowen ; with illustrations from contemporary engravings and paintings in the Macpherson Collection.
Frank Charles Bowen (b.1894)
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101120
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 86, [2] p., [1], 91 leaves of plates : ill. (12 col.) ; fol. Copy no. 63. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£3.13.6 net". Pencil date on rear free endpaper: "8/25". 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 stamped centrepiece on upper board: sailing shop; gilt stamped publisher's device on lower board; gilt lettering on upper board and spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Frank Charles Bowen (b.1894), author Macpherson, Arthur George Holdsworth, collector