King Charles II / by Arthur Bryant. With illustrations and a map.
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Book with binding of morocco and gilt tooling and edges.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3016617
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 448 p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., ports., fold. map, fold. plan ; 23 cm. First impression. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Inscribed / for / Lord Fairhaven, / whose Cambridgeshire home the ghost / of King Charles must so often pass, as / he travels from Newmarket heath to the / learned addresses of Cambridge, desiring / that the speeches may be "few and short / or" (better still) "none" / by the writer of this book / Arthur Bryant." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt-panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled) with title and author; gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Robson & Co. Ltd. W.1.'
Makers and roles
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985), author