LV. book plates / engraved on copper from designs by W.P. Barrett.
William Phillips Barrett (1861-1938)
Category
Books
Date
1900
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085739
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], viii, [3] p., 54 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 4to. Manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "Limited Edition of 260 copies / of which 250 are for sale. / No. 191 W.P. Barrett" [i.e. William Philips Barrett (1861-1938)]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full vellum; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
William Phillips Barrett (1861-1938), original artist