Old ship figure-heads & sterns : with which are associated galleries, hancing-pieces, catheads and divers other matters that concern the "grace and countenance" of old sailing-ships / by L.G. Carr Laughton.
Leonard George Carr Laughton (b.1871)
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101194
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 281, [1] p., [1], 55 leaves of plates ; 4to. Copy no 54. 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 tan morocco, decorated paper over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Old ship figure-heads & sterns' and 'L.G. Carr Laughton'; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Leonard George Carr Laughton (b.1871), author