The Devonshire House circle /
Hugh Stokes
Category
Books
Date
1917
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3162899
Summary
Bibliographic description
346, [2] p., plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: Times Book Club, 380 Oxford St., London W. Bookseller’s endpaper pencil note with price: A/B 12/6 n. Newspaper photographs affixed at front and rear of the demolition site of Devonshire House; a third cutting with text at front is entitled: “Changing Mayfair: new thoroughfares on Devonshire House”. Pencil annotation on front endpaper details references to 3rd Duke of Dorset (John Frederic Sackville). Pencil text marking for these references. 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 [i.e. Lady Victoria Sackville, 1862-1936]. Inscribed in ink: B.M. from Gwen [i.e. Lady Sackville from Gwen St. Aubyn]. Binding: green publisher’s cloth, lettered and decorated in black.
Makers and roles
Hugh Stokes