The story of our lighthouses and lightships : descriptive and historical /. by W.H. Davenport Adams.
William Henry Davenport Adams (1828 - 1891)
Category
Books
Date
1891
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3238890
Summary
Bibliographic description
380, [4] p. : ill. ; 19cm. Priced in pencil: 3/6. Small square numbered label on pastedown: 40. Loose insert with 45 x 114mm grey illustrated card with seascape, lighthouse, ships, and rocks. Provenance: small nineteenth-century ruled book label: R. Crewe [i.e. Richard Fynderne Harpur Crewe (1880-1921)]. Inscribed "Richard Findern [sic] Harpur Crewe Prize for Drawing June 1891 Calke Abbey GW [?]". Pencil annotation to text. Note on rear endpaper: "Lighthouses seen by me - R.F.H.C." with brief list. Binding: publisher's red pictorial cloth, lettered and illustrated in black and gold.
Makers and roles
William Henry Davenport Adams (1828 - 1891)