Hammond's comprehensive atlas of the world.
C.S. Hammond & Company
Category
Books
Date
1913
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251137
Summary
Bibliographic description
256, 256 p. : col. maps ; 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 title page. Binding: Twentieth-century full black morocco; single blind fillet to form an outer border on boards; gilt lettered spine; red textblock edges; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
C.S. Hammond & Company, publisher