The Royal Navy : a history from the earliest times to the present / by Wm. Laird Clowes ... Assisted by Sir Clements Markham, Captain A.T. Mahan, H.W. Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, E. Fraser, etc. Twenty-five photogravures and hundreds of full page and other illustrations, maps, charts etc. In five volumes.
Sir William Laird Clowes (1856-1905)
Category
Books
Date
1898 - 1901
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250543
Summary
Bibliographic description
7 v., plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm. Imperfect: wanting vols. 1, 4 and 7. Pencil price on second front free endpaper in vol. 2 and on half-titles in vols. 3 and 6: "30/-n". 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 endpaper in vol. 2 and on half-title in vols. 3, 5-6. Binding: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: first seal of the town of Southampton; gilt lettered spines; gilt top edges; dark blue endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir William Laird Clowes (1856-1905), author Sir Clements Robert Markham (1830-1916), author Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914), author Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866 - 1940), author Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the USA, author Leonard George Carr Laughton (b.1871), author