Old England : her story mirrored in her scenes / text by W. Shaw Sparrow ; pictures by James Orrock, ...
Walter Shaw-Sparrow (1862-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082115
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 347, [1] p., LXXX leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Pencil price on front pastedown: "10/-". Provenance: 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 green cloth; gilt stamped upper board: panel design, centrepiece of windmill in oval frame with title and author above and illustrator below; gilt stamped title and column design on spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Walter Shaw-Sparrow (1862-1940), author James Orrock (Edinburgh 1829 – London 1913), illustrator