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John Lewis Roget (1828-1908)
Category
Books
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3196435
Summary
Bibliographic description
xliv, [2], 671, [1] p. ; 21 cm. Imperfect: missing titlepage. Text marking and annotation. Insertions: 1. printed letter in Arabic, with lion and sabre seal; with manuscript note added in English: "This is addressed to you. What shall I say in reply? HGN [i.e. Harold Nicolson (1886-1968)]. 2. Picture postcard in half-tine of Nayland [Suffolk]; addressed to: V. Sackville-West, Sissinghurst Castle, ...; postmarked: 26 Oct 60[?]; inscribed: "love E." 3. printed card: Prince Firouz. 4. portion of airmail letter to Lady Bicolson, S.S. Cambridge Messageries Maritimes ... Saigon, Vietnam; date stamped: 17 Jan 59; pencil inscribed: "Ansd. from Saigon". 5. Inscribed card: St. Valentine's Day 1969 [Christopher St. John?] 5.Small illustrated card with print of Chang Shu-Chi studio; inscribed: "To the nicest person in the whole world with Anna's love". 6. Inscribed parchment in red and black: "Amicus fidelis ..." with English translation on reverse: "For V. August 10. 1945. The 13th anniversary of the Dies Inventionis. C. [i.e. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) from Christopher St. John (1871-1960)]. 7. Manuscript note in transliterated Persian[?], signed H.; with blind stamp on British Foreign Office. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "V.S-W. / Sissinghurst" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962]. Binding: re publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
John Lewis Roget (1828-1908) Samuel Romilly Roet (b.1875)