The Brighton chain pier: in memoriam. Its history from 1823 to 1896, with a biographical notice of Sir Samuel Brown, its designer and constructor.
Bishop, John George
Category
Books
Date
1896
Materials
Place of origin
Brighton
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3258661
Summary
Bibliographic description
54p., 12 plates. photos.. 8vo. Pages all mounted, with many extra illustrations and plates throughout. Not indigenous. Pencil notes on volume pastedown in Norman Norris's hand: Cat.I.9.c.ii.1 [and] Aldwick Manor 18 Aug 1941 £3.10 Provenance: (1) Gilt armorial centrepiece on front cover: [anonymous armorial with motto: In Deo Fidemus] (2) Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Binding: late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century red grained sheep over boards on five raised bands, double gilt fillet border roll and foliage corner-pieces on covers, gilt edges. Gilt spine title: History of Brighthelmston. Erredge. Ink stamp at foot of front free endpaper verso: Bound by W.C. Smith Brighton.
Makers and roles
Bishop, John George