Drake and the Tudor navy : with a history of the rise of England as a maritime power / by Julian S. Corbett ; in two volumes.
Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922)
Category
Books
Date
1917
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251864
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. 2 v., plates (some folded) : ill., maps, port. ; 8vo. Shelved as a set with v. 2 of 1912 printing. Imperfect: v. 1 only. Pencil note on front free endpaper: "2 Vols. 16/6 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.’ Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; blind stamped armorial centrepiece on upper board: arms of Sir Francis Drake quartered with those of the family of Drake of Ash (as sometimes used by Sir Francis Drake); gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922), author