Lucretia Borgia : the chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei (Renaissance period) / by Algernon Charles Swinburne ; commentary and notes by Randolph Hughes ; engravings by Reynolds Stone.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
Category
Books
Date
1942
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100856
Summary
Bibliographic description
191, [5] p. : ill. ; tall 8vo (32 cm). Copy no. 77. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£4/4/-". 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full white cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board (head of Lucretia Borgia within decorative circular border; recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt stamped): 'Lucretia Borgia Swinburne / Hughes'; gilt top edge. Binder's ink stamp on front pastedown: 'Bound by S & S. London' [i.e. Sangorski & Sutcliffe].
Makers and roles
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), author Randolph Hughes (fl.1934-1952), commentator Reynolds Stone (Eton College 1909-1979), engraver (printmaker)