To Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander.
Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (1882 - 1962)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
Birmingham
Collection
Wightwick Manor, West Midlands
NT 3013787
Summary
Bibliographic description
[37] leaves : col. ; 33 cm. Provenance: illuminated manuscript presentation album given to Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander and Rosalie Mander on the occasion of his narrow defeat in the Leominster constituency at the General Election, 1922. Designed and illuminated on vellum by Morton & Newey, Birmingham. With a list of subscribers, presumably members of the Leominster constituency Liberal Party and other local supporters. Binding: twentieth-century dark olive Morocco, gilt tooled borders, with fillets, rolls and cornerpieces; gilt lettered: To Mr. and Mrs. G. Le Mesurier Mander | North Herefordshire. Gilt turn-ins; all edges gilt; watered silk doublure and endpapers. Gilt stamp on doublure: Morton & Newey, Illuminating Artists, 14 New Street, Birmingham.
Makers and roles
Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander (1882 - 1962) Liberal Party, Great Britain Morton & Newey (Firm : Birmingham, England)