Triumph in the west 1943-1946 : based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke… / Arthur Bryant.
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985)
Category
Books
Date
1959
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3149412
Summary
Bibliographic description
576 p., [1] leaf of plates : maps, port. ; 22 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with Bryant's "The turn of the tide" (1957). Signed by the author, Arthur Bryant. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on title page: "For / Huttleston / with affection / from / Arthur" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘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. 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