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 3247555.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "2 vols. 12/.". Provenance: Blue ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Alex. Duncan. Jan 1 1870'. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘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.’. Historic shelfmark in pencil on front pastedown: M.I.(26.). Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; gilt rolled border; recessed cords; gilt tooled spine; red spine label: 'Naval sketch book'; black spine label: 'Vol. I.'.; blind rolled board edges.
Makers and roles
Captain William Nugent Glascock (1787-1847), author