Leather Book Cover
Description
The leather cover from a book. Pattern on the sides of the spine, darker brown inside as well as fraying edges and missing pieces.
A warship would have had a number of books for official documentation – the log book (for recording the ships journey), a muster book (a register of those employed on board) and various others to keep track of the stores and provisions. Officers would have been expected to provide their own maps and navigational books. Church of England bibles and prayer books would also have been present, and the Captain or a Chaplain would have conducted regular services on deck and a sermon on Sundays. It is likely that many the ship’s crew were illiterate; reading for pleasure would have been limited to the officers and a few educated seamen in the little leisure time that they had. It was also hard for the majority of men to keep an article as perishable as a book dry on a long voyage.
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Object Detail
Length: 185mm
Depth: 2mm (1/16")