Fifty years of yacht designing 1873-1923.
G.L. Watson & Co. Ltd
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
Glasgow
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248982
Summary
Bibliographic description
18 p., [2] leaves of plates, [50] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 4to. Pencil marks against 'Amy' (p. 15) and 'May' (p. 16) in the list of yachts. Provenance: 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century quarter brown morocco, grey cloth over boards; G.L. Watson's device gilt stamped on upper board; spine lettered direct with title (gilt tooled).
Makers and roles
G.L. Watson & Co. Ltd, author