Art treasures for the nation : fifty years of the National Art-Collections Fund / introduction by the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres; eighty photogravure plates.
Art Fund
Category
Books
Date
1953
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3067718
Summary
Bibliographic description
40 p., 80 p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm. Ephemera: letter, 4 August 1953, tipped in on half-title page, to "Fairhaven" from "Crawford", sending a copy of the book and hoping that visitors and friends might see it and become subscribers [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975)]. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "To / Fairhaven, / with all good wishes and many grateful thanks, / from / Crawford. / August 4th. 1953." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975)]. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full mustard yellow 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)]; gilt-panelled spine with gilt-lettered spine title; sewn onto five raised bands; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Birdsall. Northampton.'.
Makers and roles
Art Fund , author Lindsay, David, author