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
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250542.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, 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. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue cloth; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt stamped sailing ship on spine; gilt top edge; blue endpapers.
Makers and roles
Lecky, Halton Stirling, author