Memorials of St. James's Street : together with the annals of Almack's / by E. Beresford Chancellor, M.A. ; with sixteen illustrations.
Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1868-1937)
Category
Books
Date
1922
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3058651
Summary
Bibliographic description
292 p., 16 leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Extra illustrated with 47 rare / engravings of the period." Pencil number "185" on rear free endpaper. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) newspaper cutting from 'The evening news', January 22, 1929, on St. James's Street; (2) clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price: £12). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's gilt stamp at foot of front pastedown: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'. Binding: Twentieth-century half dark red morocco, marbled paper over boards; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Memorials of St. James's Street' and 'Chancellor'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Bookseller's gilt stamp at foot of front pastedown: 'C.J. Sawyer Ltd. 12 Grafton St. W.'.
Makers and roles
Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1868-1937), author