India / by Pierre Loti ; translated from the French by George A.F. Inman (of Bowdon) ; edited by Robert Harborough Sherard. Frontispiece in colour by Mortimer Menpes.
Pierre Loti (1850-1923)
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124532
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 283, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 8vo. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'The Times Book Club, / 42 Wigmore Street, W.1.'. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's brown cloth; black stamped pictorial design (tiger in bamboo) on upper board; gilt stamped title on upper board and spine; black stamped publisher's device on lower board.
Makers and roles
Pierre Loti (1850-1923), author George Arthur F. Inman, translator Robert Harborough Sherard (1861-1943), editor Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1860-1938), illustrator