A century of sea trading, 1824-1924 : the General Steam Navigation Company Limited / by L Cope Cornford ; illustrated by W L Wyllie, R A, & J Spurling ; with other illustrations reproduced from old prints.
Cornford, L. Cope
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257751
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 182 p., [26] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 8vo. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "10/6 net". Pencil date on rear free endpaper verso: "8/24". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "UHRB / 1925." [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 blue cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: logo of the General Steam Navigation Company; white stamped decorative panel design on upper board and spine; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Cornford, L. Cope, author William Lionel Wyllie, R.A. (London 1851 - Hampstead 1931), illustrator Spurling, J, illustrator