[Game book for Anglesey Abbey, 1926-1963].
Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896 - 1966)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1926 - 1963
Materials
Place of origin
Lode
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3005401
Summary
Bibliographic description
[280 p.] ; 25 x 32 (obl. fol. in sixes). Loosely inserted: (1) manuscript table of totals of game killed, 1927-1942; (2) scrap of paper used as a marker between entries for 29th October and 5th November 1938. 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 sheep; 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: 'Webster's, 44, Dover Street. W.1'. In dark brown cloth-covered slip-case.
Makers and roles
Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896 - 1966), author