The Pilgrim Fathers : a journal of their coming in the Mayflower to New England and their life and adventures there: / edited, with preface and notes by Theodore Besterman; ; eight engravings by Geoffrey Wales.
Theodore Besterman (1904-1976)
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124683
Summary
Bibliographic description
87, [1] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 8vo. Copy no. 46. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£2-2-0". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "6/39". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "F / Anglesey Abbey / 1939" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century quarter black morocco, black patterned cream cloth over boards; spine lettered direct (gilt stamped) with gilt stamped publisher's device; gilt top edge. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedown: 'Bound by S & S. London' [i.e. Sangorski & Sutcliffe].
Makers and roles
Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) , editor attributed to William Bradford (1590-1657), author Robert Cushman (1579?-1625), author George Morton (d.624), author John Robinson (1575-1625), author Geoffrey Wales (Margate 1912 - 1990), engraver (printmaker) attributed to Edward Winslow (1595 - 1655), author Golden Cockerel Press, publisher