Life of Lord Kitchener / by Sir George Arthur ; in three volumes …
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946)
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3080946
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill., facsim., maps (part fold.), ports. ; 23 cm. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on third front free endpaper in vol. 1: "How a soldier lived / and died. / With every good / wish for a soldier's career / [L?] A". Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half dark red morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; gilt panelled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Life of Lord Kitchener' and ' Sir G. Arthur / Vol. I[-III].'; gilt top edges; blue endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpapers verso: 'Truslove & Hanson. Clifford Street. W.'.
Makers and roles
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946), author