From my private diary / by Daisy Princess of Pless ; edited with an introduction and notes by Major Desmond Chapman-Huston.
Mary Theresa Olivia 'Daisy' Cornwallis-West, Princess von Pless (1873-1943)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3091460
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxv, [1], 346, [4] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Shelved and uniform with her autobiography, "Dairy Princess of Pless" (London, 1928). Pencil date on rear pastedown: "4/31". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Park St. / May 1931" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 blue cloth; gilt stamped monogram of Daisy, Princess of Pless on upper board; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Mary Theresa Olivia 'Daisy' Cornwallis-West, Princess von Pless (1873-1943), author Desmond Chapman-Huston (1884-1952), editor