Mademoiselle de Maupin : a romance / by Theophile Gautier ; translated by R. & E. Powys Mathers ; engravings by John Buckland Wright.
Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100828
Summary
Bibliographic description
284, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates ; 8vo. Copy no. 49. Pencil number (erased) on front free endpaper: "6-10". Pencil codes on rear pastedown: "Y/c5/-", "Y/-/-" and "42". 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full vellum; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Mlle. de Maupin'; gilt top edge; yellow ribbon (detached). Binder's ink stamp on front pastedown: 'Bound by S & S. London' [i.e. Sangorski & Sutcliffe].
Makers and roles
Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), author John Buckland-Wright (Dunedin 1897 - London 1954), engraver (printmaker) Edward Powys Mathers (1892-1939), translator Rosamond Crowdy Mathers (b.1888), translator