Naval Manuscript. ALBUM AND GUESTBOOK COMPILED BY ADMIRAL CLEMENT GREATOREX, COMPRISING SIGNATURES, INSCRIPTIONS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS including 26 pages with illustrations, mostly contemporary and historic naval scenes in watercolour, by montague dawson ('Cracking on', 230 x 290mm., 1925), William Wyllie, William Matthew Hale Frank Henry Mason Norman Wilkinson Alma Barton Cull, Oswald Moser and others, also a pencil illustration by Harold Wyllie and one page with three photographs mounted; signatures including the future duke of windsor ("Edward of Wales", 22 June 1907), George V, Queen Mary, and Prince Axel of Denmark, other royalty, aristocrats, and visiting dignitaries notably winston churchill (probably Stockholm, 1912), ernest shackleton, and 9 members of the 1921 Australian cricket team (Arthur Mailey, Jack Ryder, and others), prominent naval figures including E.S. Alexander-Sinclair, Sir S.A.G. Calthorpe, and Admiral Bradley A. Fiske of the US navy, together with many other visitors, mostly to HMS Eclipse, at various named ports, as well as to Greatorex's London residence of 43 Argyll Road, Kensington; mostly written directly onto the album but some pieces mounted, tipped in, or loosely inserted; 64 pages plus blanks, oblong 4to, 1906 to 1925, limp blue roan with gilt lettering on upper cover ("H.M.S. Eclipse | 1960"), silk endpapers, covers somewhat worn with crude repairs
Naval Manuscript. ALBUM AND GUESTBOOK COMPILED BY ADMIRAL CLEMENT GREATOREX, COMPRISING SIGNATURES, INSCRIPTIONS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS including 26 pages with illustrations, mostly contemporary and historic naval scenes in watercolour, by montague dawson ('Cracking on', 230 x 290mm., 1925), William Wyllie, William Matthew Hale Frank Henry Mason Norman Wilkinson Alma Barton Cull, Oswald Moser and others, also a pencil illustration by Harold Wyllie and one page with three photographs mounted; signatures including the future duke of windsor ("Edward of Wales", 22 June 1907), George V, Queen Mary, and Prince Axel of Denmark, other royalty, aristocrats, and visiting dignitaries notably winston churchill (probably Stockholm, 1912), ernest shackleton, and 9 members of the 1921 Australian cricket team (Arthur Mailey, Jack Ryder, and others), prominent naval figures including E.S. Alexander-Sinclair, Sir S.A.G. Calthorpe, and Admiral Bradley A. Fiske of the US navy, together with many other visitors, mostly to HMS Eclipse, at various named ports, as well as to Greatorex's London residence of 43 Argyll Road, Kensington; mostly written directly onto the album but some pieces mounted, tipped in, or loosely inserted; 64 pages plus blanks, oblong 4to, 1906 to 1925, limp blue roan with gilt lettering on upper cover ("H.M.S. Eclipse | 1960"), silk endpapers, covers somewhat worn with crude repairs
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