Sir Cornelius Vermuyden : the lifework of a great Anglo-Dutchman in land-reclamation and drainage : with some notes by the author on the present condition of drainage in England and a resumé of drainage legislation in Holland / by J. Korthals-Altes ...
Korthals-Altes, J
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3259016
Summary
Bibliographic description
XI, [1], 202, 208, [6] p., [24] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps (1 col.) ; 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on frontispiece verso: "M[elrose?] Bou[irus?] from the Author Oct. 1925" [i.e. from J. Korthals-Altes]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; blind fillets to form a panel design on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: coat of arms of the Vermuyden family; gilt lettered spine; blue endpapers.
Makers and roles
Korthals-Altes, J, author