Liaison, 1914 : a narrative of the great retreat / by Brigadier-General E.L. Spears ... With fourteen maps & two sketches by Lt.-Col. Sir Morgan Crofton ...
Sir Edward Louis Spears (1886-1974)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101643
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxix, [1], 597, [1] p., [47] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill., maps., ports. ; 25 cm (8vo). New impression, October 1930 (second printing). Ink-stamped date on rear free endpaper verso: "12 30'". Ephemera: loosely inserted publisher's advertisement flyer for Hoare's "The fourth seal". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "F / from / Harold & Clare / Christmas 1930" [i.e. to 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)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'The Times Book Club, / 42 Wigmore Street, W.1.' Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's burgundy cloth; blind stamped publisher's device on lower board; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Edward Louis Spears (1886-1974), author