The book of the Queen's Dolls' House / edited by A.C. Benson, ... and Sir Lawrence Weaver, ...
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Book with original board binding.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3021600
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 248, [2] p., XCII leaves of plates (some col.) : ill. ; 4to. Copy no. 1253. 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)]. Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "For / Lord Fairhaven / in remembrance of / my visit to Anglesey Abbey / from / Mary R / 5th August / 1938." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from Queen Mary]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's quarter cream cloth; blue paper over boards with gilt stamped crown and monogram MR 1924 [= Queen Mary] on upper board; printed paper spine label (spare spine label tipped-in at end). In blue paper-covered slip-case with "The book of the Queen's Dolls' House library" edited by E.V. Lucas (London, 1924).
Makers and roles
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925), editor Sir Lawrence Weaver (1876 - 1930), editor