The sea and its story : from Viking ship to submarine / edited by Captain Frank H. Shaw and Ernest H. Robinson.
Ernest H. Robinson
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3254157
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 472 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 4to. Pencil codes on front pastedown: "350 / net / 3X= / 10/10". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.'. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's green cloth; two sets of a single light green fillet and triple black fillets to form an outer border on upper board; coloured pictorial paper onlay (ship at sea) as centrepiece on upper board within a circular frame of gilt fillets and a single light green thick fillet; gilt stamped cornerpieces on upper board: scallop shells; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Ernest H. Robinson, editor Frank Hubert Shaw (b.1878), editor