Beau Geste / by Percival Christopher Wren ; with illustrations by Helen McKie.
Percival Christopher Wren (London 1875 - 1941)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101731
Summary
Bibliographic description
Edition de Luxe. [10], 579, [5] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill., music, ports. ; 8vo. Copy no. 695. Signed by the author. Bookseller's pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "2/5/.". Pencil code on title page verso: "γ/γε/σ". Pencil checkmark above binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso. Pencil marks against entries in list of plates. Provenance: Pencil initials and date on front pastedown: "UHRB 1927" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'H. Sotheran & Co., 43, Piccadilly, London'. Binding: Twentieth-century half red morocco, blue cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine: spine compartments gilt stamped with tool showing martial elements: drum, standard, trumpet, etc.; blue morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Beau Geste / Wren'; gilt top edge. Original cloth wrappers retained. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Percival Christopher Wren (London 1875 - 1941), author Helen Madeleine McKie (London 1889 -1957) , illustrator