A moral ending and other stories. / By Sylvia Townsend Warner ; with a frontispiece by William Kermode and a foreword by T.F. Powys.
Sylvia Townsend Warner (Harrow on the Hill 1893 - Maiden Newton 1978)
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100874
Summary
Bibliographic description
47, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Copy no. 404. Signed by the author, Sylvia Townsend Warner. Bookseller's pencil note on front pastedown: "550 numbered copies signed by the author". Pencil price on front pastedown: "10/6". Pencil numbers on front pastedown: "511" (written over another number: "[548?]"), "412" and "609". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey / November 1943" [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 brown cloth; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Sylvia Townsend Warner (Harrow on the Hill 1893 - Maiden Newton 1978), author William Kermode (1895-1959) , illustrator Theodore Francis Powys (1875-1953), author