The book of the horse / edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.
Brian Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald (b.1900)
Category
Books
Date
1946
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3067703
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 17-879, [1] p., [34] p. of plates : ill. ; 4to. Copy no. 32. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£10.10/-". Pencil numbers on rear pastedown: "T17[?] 1246". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Fairhaven / from / Brograve & Evelyn Beauchamp. / Anglesey Abbey. / Christmas 1947" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp (1897-1976) and Lady Evelyn Leonora Almina Beauchamp (1901-1980)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's tan morocco; gilt stamped pictorial decoration on boards: horse riding equipment on upper board, horse pulling a plough on lower board; gilt lettered spine; pictorial endpapers: horse riding equipment, man holding a rearing horse and horse pulling a plough.
Makers and roles
Brian Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald (b.1900), editor