Frederick Edwin Earl of Birkenhead. Vol. 1. The first phase / by his son, the Earl of Birkenhead ; foreword by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill.
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (1907-1975)
Category
Books
Date
1933
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086041
Summary
Bibliographic description
319, [1] p., plates : ports. (col. front.) ; 22 cm. Shelved with "Frederick Edwin, Earl of Birkenhead. The last phase" (London, 1936). Provenance: 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 [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full dark blue 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 with gilt-lettered spine title; sewn onto five raised bands; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Robson & Co. Ltd. W.1.'.
Makers and roles
Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (1907-1975), author