Great houses of Europe / edited by Sacheverell Sitwell ; photographs by Edwin Smith.
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988)
Category
Books
Date
1961
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101260
Summary
Bibliographic description
318, [2] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. Ephemera: loosely inserted letter (on headed paper: 'Holmwood, Englefield Green, Surrey') in envelope labelled "The Lord Fairhaven", sending the book "With every good wish / for Xmas & 1962 / from Audrey[?]" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 publisher's red cloth; gilt lettered title in blue panel on spine; bronze decorated endpapers; dust wrapper wanting.
Makers and roles
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1897-1988), editor Edwin Smith (1912-1971), photographer