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 3124327.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, [62] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm. Pencil number on front pastedown: "1377". Pencil code on front pastedown: "m/s+m/t". Pencil price on front pastedown: "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 board and spine; gilt lettered upper board and spine; white stamped cornerpieces (sphinxes) at head of upper board; white stamped statuette of soldier on spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie, Lady Guest (1812 - 1895), author Montague John Guest (1839-1909, editor Egan Mew, editor