The turn of the tide, 1939-1943 : a study based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke ...
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985)
Category
Books
Date
1957
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3148681
Summary
Bibliographic description
766 p., [1] leaf of plates : maps, port. ; 22 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with Bryant's "Triumph in the West" (1959). Signed by the author, Arthur Bryant. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title page: "For / Huttleston / with affection / from / the author" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985)]. Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt-panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled) with title and author; gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985), author Field-Marshall Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough (1883-1963), author