Pictures from the Iveagh Bequest and Collections : with an introduction and catalogue of the Kenwood Collection / by Sir Charles Holmes.
Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood (London, England)
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3002411
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii, [1], 33, [3] p., [1], LIX leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; fol. Copy no. 20 on deckle-edged paper. Pencil notes on rear pastedown: "MB/-/-" and "19/11/28". Provenance: pencil inscription on front pastedown: "U.H.R.B. from C.L.B. Christmas 1928" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from his mother Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; gilt tooling; gilt centrepiece on upper board: coat of arms of the Earl of Iveagh; gilt tooling on spine; gilt spine title: 'Pictures from the Iveagh Bequest / Sir Charles Holmes'; sewn onto five raised cords; deckle edges.
Makers and roles
Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood (London, England), issuer Sir Charles John Holmes (1868-1936), author