Avignon : album artistique.
Category
Books
Date
c. 1927
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3005388
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16] leaves of plates : all ill. ; 16 cm x 24 cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt tooled initials on spine: 'U.H.R.B.' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Robson & Co. Ltd. / 7, Hanover Street. W.1.' Binding: Twentieth-century half blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'U.H.R.B. Avignon. 1927.' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edge. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Wallis'.