The golden carpet / by Somerset De Chair, ...
Somerset Struben de Chair, DSC, MP (1911-1995)
Category
Books
Date
1943
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101699
Summary
Bibliographic description
128 p. . port. ; 27 cm (4to.). Copy no. 258. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£3-3-". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "7/43". 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 green morocco, cream cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The golden carpet' 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), author