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 3101121
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 86, [2] p., [1], 91 leaves of plates : ill. (12 col.) ; fol. Copy no. 1. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£4.4.0 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 half pigskin, patterned paper over boards; gilt lettered spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Frank Charles Bowen (b.1894), author Macpherson, Arthur George Holdsworth, collector