The prime ministers of Britain, 1721-1921 : with a supplementary chapter to 1924 / by the Hon. Clive Bigham ...
Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872 - 1956)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069310
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [1], 384 p., plates : ports. ; 23 cm. With two final pages of publisher's advertisements. Pencil checkmarks against list of illustrations. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "Hand painted / miniature on ivory / by Miss Currie / £60". Ephemera: loosely inserted clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy, price £60. 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 on rear turn-in: 'Henry Sotheran, Ltd.'. Binding: Twentieth-century Cosway binding: full green morocco; miniature of William Pitt the Younger under glass on upper board in gilt metal frame with gilt tooled border; gilt fillets and roll to form an outer border on boards with elaborate gilt tooled cornerpieces; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The prime ministers of Britain 1721-1921' and 'Clive Bigham'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets and rolls on turn-ins with decorative gilt tooled cornerpieces; gilt textblock edges; ivory watered silk endleaves. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London.' Bookseller's gilt stamp on rear turn-in: 'Henry Sotheran, Ltd.'. In green cloth-covered box, gilt lettered with title and author.
Makers and roles
Charles Clive Bigham, 2nd Viscount Mersey (1872 - 1956), author