Steam-ships : the story of their development to the present day / by R.A. Fletcher ; with a hundred and fifty illustrations.
R. A. Fletcher
Category
Books
Date
1910
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3254163
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 421, [3] p., [90] leaves of plates : 150 ill. ; 8vo. Pencil codes on front pastedown: "375 / net / 4X= / 9/10". Provenance: Pencil initials on front pastedown: "UHRB" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; gilt roll (rope design) to form an outer border on upper board; coloured pictorial paper inlay (steam-ship) on upper board within rectangular frame of gilt and blind fillets; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: ship's wheel; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt stamped anchor with entwined rope on spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
R. A. Fletcher, author