The silver crescent / by Somerset De Chair, ...
Somerset Struben de Chair, DSC, MP (1911-1995)
Category
Books
Date
1943
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101663
Summary
Bibliographic description
126, [2] p., [8] p. of plates : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 4to. Copy no. 37. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£3.3.". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "11/43". 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 quarter blue morocco, white cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The silver crescent' and 'Somerset De Chair'; gilt stamped golden cockerel at foot of spine [i.e. The Golden Cockerel Press]; gilt top edge. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by S & S, London' [i.e. Sangorski & Sutcliffe]
Makers and roles
Somerset Struben de Chair, DSC, MP (1911-1995)