The Druce-Portland case / by Theodore Besterman.
Theodore Besterman (1904-1976)
Category
Books
Date
1935
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3125113
Summary
Bibliographic description
308 p., [4] leaves of plates : ports. ; 8vo. Pencil prices on front free endpaper: "10/6" (crossed through) and "3/-". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey / June 1941" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil note on front free endpaper in Lord Fairhaven's handwriting: "Lewis Clark of Leckhampton House / Cambridge dined with me at Anglesey Abbey / on June 5th. 1941. I told him I was / reading this book. He said after the Trial / his Mother's cook came to her & said " / Madam I was so interested in the Trial, I / was Mr & Mrs Druce's cook for several years" / If she had come forward the trial / might never have taken place. / Fairhaven / 6/6/41/". Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; black stamped title on spine.
Makers and roles
Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) , author