The Lake of the Royal Crocodiles / by Eileen Bigland.
Eileen Bigland (1898-1970)
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3134557
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 299, [1] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill., 2 maps ; 24 cm. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "1/39". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil note on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / 37 Park Street[?] / April 1939" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's black cloth; white lettered upper board and spine; blind embossed motif on upper board: animals in circular frame.
Makers and roles
Eileen Bigland (1898-1970), author