Country houses of Dorset / by Arthur Oswald ; with 200 illustrations from photographs and a map.
Arthur Oswald (1904-1979)
Category
Books
Date
1935
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085514
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiv, 104 p., [105] leaves of plates : ill., map (folded), plans ; 4to. Uniformly bound and shelved with Oswald's "Country houses of Kent" (London, 1933). Provenance: Manuscript inscription on third front free endpaper: "Fairhaven / with best wishes / from Arthur Oswald / Anglesey Abbey. April 1936." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Arthur Oswald (1904-1979)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large 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 green 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, lettered direct (gilt tooled) with title and author; sewn onto five raised bands; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; pale green ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on rear turn-in: 'Robson & Co Ltd.'.
Makers and roles
Arthur Oswald (1904-1979), author