Further memorials of the Royal Yacht Squadron (1901-1938) / by J.B. Atkins.
John Black Atkins (1871-1954)
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101595
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 339, [1] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. List of original subscribers includes "The Lord Fairhaven" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binder's[?] pencil note on half-title: "Fairhaven / 16966" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue Morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt-panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): ' The Royal Yacht Squadron' and 'Atkins'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; blue silk ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
John Black Atkins (1871-1954), author