Chiaroscuro : fragments of autobiography: first series / Augustus John.
Augustus Edwin John, RA (Tenby 1878 – Fordingbridge, Hampshire 1961)
Category
Books
Date
1952
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100931
Summary
Bibliographic description
285, [3] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Pencil price on front pastedown: "30/-". Pencil code on front pastedown: "g/o/p". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "B [i.e. bought?] 3/52". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey / 1952." [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 red cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: 'AJ'; gilt lettered spine; red top edge.
Makers and roles
Augustus Edwin John, RA (Tenby 1878 – Fordingbridge, Hampshire 1961), author