Kent : the gateway of England and its great possessions / by Arthur Mee ; with 400 places and 226 pictures.
Arthur Mee (1875 - 1943)
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085565
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 508 p., [65] p. of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other volumes in the series. Map bound in at end. 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 stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt panelled spine; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; dark blue morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Kent / Arthur Mee'; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The King's England'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'.
Makers and roles
Arthur Mee (1875 - 1943), author