Disraeli : a picture of the Victorian age / by André Maurois ; translated by Hamish Miles.
André Maurois (1885-1967)
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100971
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [4], 334 p., [2] leaves of plates : ports. ; 8vo. Ephemera: loosely inserted card with manuscript note: "All best wishes / for Xmas + New Year / Tom G.". 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)]. Bookseller's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Hatchards, 187, Piccadilly.' Binding: Twentieth-century half blue morocco, blue cloth over boards; sewn onto four raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Disraeli' and 'Maurois'; gilt top edge; light blue endpapers; blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
André Maurois (1885-1967), author Hamish Miles (1894-1937), translator