The pilot's handbook for the English Channel : containing concise directions for entering and navigating the Channel, and of all the harbours and anchorages on the English coast, from the Scilly Islands to the North Foreland; also questions on the pilotage of the Channel. Illustrated by twenty plates /
John William King
Category
Books
Date
1889
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3201586
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 183, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : charts (col., some folded) ; 22cm. Loosely inserted between pp. 80-81 is a pencil sketch of a yacht, inscribed "R.C. [prob. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921)] Early morning 12 July". Provenance: Inscribed on upper pastedown: "HC 1889" [i.e. Hugo Crewe (1858-1905)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full blue cloth, gilt embossed on upper cover and spine.
Makers and roles
John William King Thomas A. Hull