The influence of sea power upon history, 1660-1783. By Captain A. T. Mahan, ...
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Tredegar, Newport
NT 3223682
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 557, [1] p., [25] leaves of plates :. ill., maps, plans ;. 23 cm. Provenance: On loan to National Trust from Newport City Council Museums & Galleries. Reference no. of loan in pencil on loose slip: TEMP 2006.2134. On inside front cover is pictorial label of Newport, Mon., Reference Library with accession no. 34098. Stamp of Newport Public Libraries on titlepage. Gift label on inside rear cover recording gift of this book to Newport Public Libraries by Edgar Fawckner, gift 7532. On fly leaf is printed label of The Navy League Essay Competition School Prize; inscription in ink that book presented to Dorothy Fawckner of Felixstowe School, Clifton, in Sept. 1913; also signed F.A. Close, Admiral. Binding: Full Navy blue leather binding over boards, with gold lettering and decorations on spine, raised bands, decorated turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Stamped on front cover: `The Navy League'. Old classmark on spine: 359.09 MAH.
Makers and roles
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914)