These eventful years : the twentieth century in the making / as told by many of its makers : being the dramatic story of all that has happened throughout the world during the most momentous period in all its history ; with 160 full-page illustrations and numerous maps ; in two volumes ...
Franklin Henry Hooper (1862-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255815.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates : diagrams, maps, ports. ; 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's dark green cloth; quadruple blind fillets to form an outer border on upper board; black lettered upper board; two sets of double black fillets on spine; black fillets and stamps on spine to form design of aeroplanes in search lights; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Franklin Henry Hooper (1862-1940), editor