Winkles and champagne : comedies and tragedies of the music hall / by M. Willson Disher ; with illustrations from photographs, programmes, prints, song covers, song books, bills and posters, mainly from the author's collection.
Maurice Willson Disher (b.1893)
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3096639
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 147, [1] p., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. 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 green morocco, green cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt panelled spine compartments, buff spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Winkles and champagne' and 'M. Willson Disher'; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Maurice Willson Disher (b.1893), author