Lady Charlotte Schreiber's journals : confidences of a collector of ceramics & antiques throughout Britain France Holland Belgium Spain Portugal Turkey Austria & Germany from the year 1869 to 1885 / edited by her son, Montague J. Guest ; with annotations by Egan Mew ; illustrated by upwards of one hundred plates including eight in colour & one in photogravure ; in two volumes.
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie, Lady Guest (1812 - 1895)
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124327
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., [109] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm. Pencil number on front pastedown in vol. 1: "1377". Pencil code on front pastedown in vol. 1: "m/s+m/t". Pencil price on front pastedown in vol. 1: "2 vols £3/3/-". Provenance: Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Frances Evelyn Countess of Warwick' [i.e. Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick, née Maynard (1861-1938)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (coat of arms in carved oval frame) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper boards and spines; gilt lettered upper boards and spines; white stamped cornerpieces (sphinxes) at head of upper boards; white stamped statuette of soldier on spines; gilt top edges.
Makers and roles
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie, Lady Guest (1812 - 1895), author Montague John Guest (1839-1909, editor Egan Mew, editor