Fifty years of travel by land, water, and air / by Frank Hedges Butler, founder of the Royal Aero Club 1901 ; with 89 illustrations.
Butler, Frank Hedges
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258930
Summary
Bibliographic description
421, [1] p., plates : ill., 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)]. Pencil letter "F" on front free endpaper [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's light blue cloth; printed paper onlay on upper board: bookplate of Frank Hedges Butler (author); dark blue lettering on upper board; gilt stamped figure on spine; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Butler, Frank Hedges, author