Down the river
Herbert Ernest Bates (1905-1974)
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3173137
Summary
Bibliographic description
150, [2] p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Loosely inserted typescript publisher's letter to Vita Sackville-West to accompany this book, dated: 23rd September, 1938; signed: Norman Collins, Deputy Chairman; with proposal that she should do the text for a book on "Gardens" with this artist. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine. (Insect damage to rear endpapers.)
Makers and roles
Herbert Ernest Bates (1905-1974) London Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980)