Plumer of Messines / by General Sir Charles Harington; with a foreword by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sir Charles Harington (1872-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1935
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124537
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xviii, 351, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., fascim., maps, ports. ; 8vo. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "11/35". Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) newspaper cutting from "The Times", 28 November 1935 (supplied by "The International Press-Cutting Bureau") on a private view of an exhibition of Chinese art at Burlington House, with a pencil mark by the name of Lady Fairhaven [i.e. Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]; (2) advertisement flyer for "The Cornhill magazine". Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Charles Harington (1872-1940), author Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864-1945), author