The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci / arranged, rendered into English and introduced by Edward MacCurdy.
Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452 - Amboise 1519)
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085526
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Second impression, November 1938. Some leaves uncut. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown in vol. 1: "Fairhaven / from / Brograve Beauchamp / Christmas 1938." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from Sir Brograve Campbell Beauchamp, 2nd Bt. (1897-1976)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small 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 decoration on upper boards and spines; gilt lettered spines.
Makers and roles
Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452 - Amboise 1519), author Edward McCurdy (b.1871), editor