Heroes of the Elizabethan Age : stirring records of the intrepid bravery and boundless resource of the men of Queen Elizabeth's reign / by Edward Gilliat, … ; with sixteen illustrations.
Gilliat, Edward
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3259290
Summary
Bibliographic description
335, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil price, code and date[?] on front pastedown: "150 net 4X= 10/10". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & Stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; gilt stamped pictorial centrepiece on upper board: Queen Elizabeth knighting Sir Francis Drake; gilt stamped title and decorative panels and cream blocked decoration on upper board; gilt stamped illustration on spine: Sir Francis Drake playing bowls; gilt stamped title and cream blocked decoration on spine.
Makers and roles
Gilliat, Edward, author