Pins and pincushions.
Eleanor D. Longman
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3119268
Summary
Bibliographic description
xx, 188 p., , 42 plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Manuscript letter from Eleanor Longman to Vita Sackville-West affixed to first endpaper; headed: 18, Thurloe Square, S.W.; dated June 13. /11; regarding illustration of Knole items in the work. Manuscript note on free endpaper detailing pages where items from Knole are included: "My 2 Pin-Prickt pictures of Henry IV and Sully are illustrated and mentioned ... V. Sackville / June 1911"; with corresponding text marking and annotation. Provenance: decorated bookplate: A good book is the best of friends the same today and forever. One of the books of Victoria Sackville Knole Sevenoaks [i.e. Lady Victoria Sackville, 1862-1936]. Binding: red publisher's cloth, gold lettered, with paper inlay cover illustration.
Makers and roles
Eleanor D. Longman Sophy Loch