The comedy of Catherine the Great /
Francis Henry Gribble (1862-1946)
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3153038
Summary
Bibliographic description
xix, [1], 367, [1], 15, [1] p., plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Loosely inserted: [1] press cutting: The treasures of Cracow: Pageant of mediæval splendour, from The Morning Post, Tuesday, January 31, 1922; [2] press cutting: Fate of Russian royalties. New story of further Red “executions”, The Evening Standard, unknown date; [3] portrait cutting: Carl van Loo, Portrait de Catherine II; [4] portrait cutting: Liotard, François Ier, Empereur d’Allemagne. Provenance: decorated bookplate: A good book is the best of friends the same today and forever. One of the books of Victoria Sackville Knole Sevenoaks. Inscribed in pencil: “To Lady Sackville from Coleman Drayton May. 1912”. Binding: red publisher’s cloth, gold lettered and decorated.
Makers and roles
Francis Henry Gribble (1862-1946)