Nell Gwyn : the story of her life / by Lewis Melville author of "The life of Thackeray" etc ; with illustrations in colour & black & white by Kitty Shannon.
Lewis Melville (1874-1932)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085369
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [3], 326, [2] p., [20] leaves of plates : ports. (some col.) ; 8vo. Provenance: Pencil initials on front pastedown: "UHRB" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; single blind fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: portrait of Nell Gwyn in oval frame; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Lewis Melville (1874-1932), author Shannon, Kitty, illustrator