'1914' and other poems / Rupert Brooke.
Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
Category
Books
Date
c. 1918
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085729
Summary
Bibliographic description
43, [7] p. : col. ill. ; 4to. Pencil no. "11914" on rear free endpaper verso. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (coat of arms in carved oval frame) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full brown morocco, gilt fillets to form panel design on boards with white morocco onlays and green morocco inlays to form pictorial centrepieces and cornerpieces of lilies; sewn onto five raised bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt-tooled): ''1914' and other poems Rupert Brooke'; gilt fillet on board edges; quintuple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; ivory watered silk endleaves. In brown morocco protective case; gilt tooled.
Makers and roles
Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915), author Sangorski, Alberto, illuminator