Naval sketch-book; : or, The service afloat and ashore : with characteristic reminiscences, fragments, and opinions on professional, colonial, and political subjects : interspersed with copious notes, biographical, historical, critical, and illustrative. / By an Officer of rank. In two volumes.
Captain William Nugent Glascock (1787-1847)
Category
Books
Date
1826
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247555
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "2 vols. 12/.". Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial spade shield and ribbon bookplate (Franks 8369) in vol. 2: 'W.K. Dehany Esqr.'. Blue ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso in both vols.: 'Alex. Duncan. Jan 1 1870'. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails) in both vols.: ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Purple ink-stamp: ‘S.Y. SAPPHIRE.’ in both vols. Historic shelfmarks in pencil on front pastedowns: M.I.(26.)-(27.). Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; gilt rolled border; recessed cords; gilt tooled spines; red spine labels: 'Naval sketch book'; black spine labels: 'Vol. I[-II].'; blind rolled board edges.
Makers and roles
Captain William Nugent Glascock (1787-1847), author