The naval pocket-book.
Sir William Laird Clowes (1856-1905)
Category
Books
Date
1896
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3212556.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v., plates : ill. ; 13cm. Holdings: 1896. Drawing of a ship on upper flyleaf verso and a newspaper cutting in the pocket on the lower pastedown. Provenance: Combination of book label and inscriptions: "R.F.H. Crewe" [i.e. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921), son of Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe, 10th Bt, and Isabel Adderley]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full navy cloth, gilt embossed and lettered. Edges either dyed red or gilt.
Makers and roles
Sir William Laird Clowes (1856-1905) Leonard George Carr Laughton (b.1871)