From powder monkey to admiral : a story of naval adventure.
William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3208698
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 400 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19cm. Provenance: Inscribed on verso flyleaf: "Richard Findern Harpur Crewe [i.e. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921), son of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt, and Isabel Adderley], Extra Punctuality Prize, June 1891. Calke Abbey, EW." Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover and spine. Gilt edges, brown endpapers.
Makers and roles
William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) James Macaulay (1817-1902)