Yachts of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 1815-1932 / Sir John C. E. Shelley-Rolls, Bart.
Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls, 6th Baronet (1871-1951)
Category
Books
Date
1933
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3151005
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxiii, [1], 243-265, [1] p., 242 leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Pencil number "17698" on rear free endpaper; pencil tick on front free endpaper. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Loosely inserted: clipping from book dealer's catalogue describing this copy, with price £45. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco over boards; gilt fillets to form a border; inlaid pictorial leather centrepiece showing a yacht; spine gilt with anchor tools and coloured flag; gilt spine title; sewn on five raised bands; gilt fillets on boards edges and inner panels; gilt textblock edges. Binder's stamp on front pastedown: Bound by Zaehnsdorf, London, England. In protective blue cloth-covered box.
Makers and roles
Sir John Courtown Edward Shelley-Rolls, 6th Baronet (1871-1951), author