British military prints / by Ralph Nevill.
Ralph Henry Nevill (1865-1930)
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082201
Summary
Bibliographic description
XXVII, [1], lii, 72 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 4to. Pencil price on front pastedown: "3/6 net". Pencil note on p. xxvi in the handwriting of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966): "The original painting at Park Close / In my collection" [referring to the engraving of 'The decisive charge of the Life Guards at the Battle of Waterloo' by Luke Clennel and possibly other engravings]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Purple pencil initials on front pastedown: "UHRB" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; gilt and blind stamped decoration on upper board with small circular paper onlay at foot: colour print of head and shoulders of a soldier in uniform; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Ralph Henry Nevill (1865-1930), author