Motors and motor-driving
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922).
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Castle Drogo, Devon
NT 3189723
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 456, [4] p., [13] leaves of plates :. ill., plans, diagrs., port. ;. 19 cm. Provenance: Purchased from A. Drewe. Inscription in ink on half-title: `From E.D. & R.G.D. 4th April /03'. Loose at p. 57 is calling card of Lieut. Reginald G. Drew [and Lizzie, inserted in ink], Junior Athenaeum Club. Binding: Half blue leather binding, with light brown cloth over boards, with gold lettering on spine and royal crest in gold on front (as issued, for deluxe edition). Crest has mottos: `Honi soit qui mal y pense' and `Mutare vel timore sperno'. Blue linen bookmark inserted. Gilt top edge. A few pages uncut. Uniformly bound with series.
Makers and roles
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922).