Sir Godfrey Kneller and his times, 1646-1723 : being a review of English portraiture of the period / by Lord Killanin.
Michael Morris, Baron Killanin (b.1914)
Category
Books
Date
1948
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085430
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 117, [1] p., plates (1 folded) : ill. (some col.), geneal. table, ports. ; 4to. (26 cm). Imperfect: wanting Appendix C ('Chart of English portrait painters'). Includes, as ill. no. 43, a reproduction of Kneller's 'The crucifixion' from Anglesey Abbey. Ephemera: tipped in letter, 15 February 1949, to "Huttleston" from "Michael K", thanking him for his letter and a press cutting, apologising that the publisher had not sent a copy of the book and hoping to visit [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Michael Morris, Baron Killanin (1914-1999)]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt-panelled spine with gilt-lettered spine title; sewn onto five raised bands; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; red ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall. Northampton.'.
Makers and roles
Michael Morris, Baron Killanin (b.1914), author