Annals of a Yorkshire house : from the papers of a macaroni & his kindred / by A.M.W. Stirling ; with 3 portraits in colour 3 in photogravure and 33 other illustrations.
Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Stirling (1865-1965)
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3006325
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill. (3 col.), facsims., folded geneal. tables, ports. ; 23 cm. Errata slip tipped in at the front of each vol. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "2 vols". Ephemera: loosely inserted card with manuscript note in vol. 1: "With love & all the best / wishes for Xmas & the / New Year from Margo. / These books will be changed / if they don't appeal." [possibly from Margery Greenwood, Viscountess Greenwood (1886-1968)]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Historic shelfmark[?] in pencil on front free endpaper verso in both vols. and (partially) on second front free endpaper verso in vol. 1: "C 3". Binding: Twentieth-century half red calf, red cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Annals of a Yorkshire House' and 'Stirling / Vol. I[-II]'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso in both vols.: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Anna Maria Diana Wilhelmina Stirling (1865-1965), author