Life on the lagoons
Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (1854-1926)
Category
Books
Date
1900
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3187003
Summary
Bibliographic description
297, [3]p. :. ill. ;. 8vo. Nymans copy includes a 32p. publisher's catalogue for 1903 bound in at end. With a menu from Le Grand Hotel Venise laid in, pencil sketches on verso. Provenance: inscribed on half-title "LCR Messel Grand Hotel Venezia "; also "No 249". Provenance: armorial bookplate, motto Dirigat deus, lettered “Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel” [i.e. Leonard Messel (1872-1953)]. Binding: publisher's green cloth.
Makers and roles
Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (1854-1926)