Narratives of the wreck of the whale-ship Essex of Nantucket : which was destroyed by a whale in the Pacific Ocean in the year 1819 / told by Owen Chase First Mate Thomas Chappel Second Mate and George Pollard Captain of the said vessel ; together with an introduction & twelve engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings.
Chase, Owen
Category
Books
Date
1935
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251700
Summary
Bibliographic description
87, [3] p. : ill. ; 32 cm. Copy no. 17. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth century full publisher's yellow cloth, sea green cloth onlay at foot of boards in the shape of a wave; gilt lettered spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Chase, Owen, author Chappel, Thomas, author Pollard, George, Jr., author Robert John Gibbings (Cork 1889-1958), illustrator