Selections from the Three hundred poems of the Tʻang dynasty / translated by Soame Jenyns ...
Roger Soame Jenyns (1904-1976)
Category
Books
Date
1940
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3031030
Summary
Bibliographic description
First edition. 116 p. ; 8vo. 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)]. Gilt stamped coat of arms of Lord Fairhaven on upper board. Binding: Twentieth-century full mustard yellow morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt stamped coat of arms of Lord Fairhaven on upper board; five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Some poems of the T'ang Dynasty', 'Soame Jenyns' and '1940'; double gilt fillet on board edges; two sets of double gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; yellow ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Roger Soame Jenyns (1904-1976), translator