The King's ships : together with the important historical episodes connected with the successive ships of the same name from remote times, and a list of names and services of some ancient war vessels / by Halton Stirling Lecky lieutenant, Royal Navy ; with over 2500 illustrations from old paintings, prints and models, naval crests, admirals' signatures, etc., etc. In six volumes.
Lecky, Halton Stirling
Category
Books
Date
1913 - 1914
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250542
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 8vo. 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)]. Purple ink-stamp: ‘S.Y. SAPPHIRE.’ on second front free endpapers in vols. 1-2 and on half-title in vol. 3. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue cloth; gilt lettered upper boards and spines; gilt stamped sailing ship on spines; gilt top edges; blue endpapers.
Makers and roles
Lecky, Halton Stirling, author