[Game book for Anglesey Abbey, 1943-1963].
Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896 - 1966)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1943 - 1963
Materials
Place of origin
Lode
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3004496
Summary
Bibliographic description
[290 p.] ; 25 x 32 (obl. 8vo.). Loosely inserted: (1) handwritten table of totals shot for years 1926-1944; (2) typescript list headed 'Over 350' listing dates on which 350 or more were shot, covering the years 1927-1960 (with 1961-1962 added in pencil). Provenance: 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 full orange calf; single gilt fillet to form an outer border; upper board gilt lettered: 'Anglesey Abbey'; sewn onto recessed cords; double gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'A. Webster & Co. 44 Dover St., W.1'. In brown cloth-covered slip-case.
Makers and roles
Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896 - 1966), author