The coast of pleasure : chapters practical, geographical and anecdotal on the social, open-air and restaurant life of the French Riviera : with a few notes on the ways of approach to that resort of worldlings / by Grant Richards ... ; with a frontispiece in colour and other illustrations by Tom Van Oss.
Richards, Grant
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3005312
Summary
Bibliographic description
361, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (1 col.) ; 8vo. Ephemera: loosely inserted: publisher's advertisement postcard. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Fairhaven" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; gilt stamped monogram on upper board: 'GR' [i.e. the author, Grant Richards (1872-1948)]; blind stamped publisher's device on lower board; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Richards, Grant, author Oss, Thomas W. van, illustrator