yachtsman's annual bonner
BONNERGE020256

Yachtsman's Annual and General Register

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Bonner, George Frederick
London, Orger and Meryon, 1845
dedicated by express permission, to the most noble the Marquis of Anglesey

by George Frederick Bonner.

London, Orger and Meryon, 1845

pp230. folding hand-coloured frontispiece showing the ensigns, burgees, etc. of the yacht clubs of the United Kingdom. two other engraved plates plus engravings in the text.

a very nice copy in the original green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper board and spine, with all page edges gilt. book-plate of Arthur Gregory of Stivichall, near Coventry on front paste-down, and later book-plate lightly tipped-in to front free end-paper.

containing historical notes, laws and regulations, and registers of members and yachts of the following yacht clubs: Royal Yacht Squadron, Royal Thames, Royal Western, Royal Cork, Royal Northern, Royal Southern, Royal Harwich, Arundel, Royal Eastern [no register], Royal Victoria, Royal Kingstown, Royal Mersey; plus postscript recording racing results through the 1845 season, and an alphabetical index of yachts.