Sir Francis Drake /
E. F. Benson (1867 - 1940)
Category
Books
Date
1927
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3192222
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [3], 315, [5] p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm. Partly unopened. Loosely inserted: press cutting, review of the work by H.M. Tomlinson, The Observer, May 29, 1927; small news cutting on series affixed to rear endpaper. One rear endpaper page reference and corresponding pencil text marking. Provenance: bookplate: V S in two linked rings, with baron's coronet [i.e. Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville (1862-1936)]. Affixed to endpaper: autograph letter signed from E.F. Benson to "dear B.M."; in envelope addressed "The Lady Sackville, White Cottage, Roedean, Brighton"; to accompany the sending of this book; headed: Lamb House, Rye, Sussex; dated; April 23.27. Binding: blue publisher's cloth, gold lettered, blind stamped ship and waves on upper cover.
Makers and roles
E. F. Benson (1867 - 1940)