Old English houses / by J. Alfred Gotch ... with 7 plans and 48 illustrations.
John Alfred Gotch (1852-1942)
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3219360
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xiii, [1], 215, [1], 8 p., [55] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm. Ephemera: tipped-in at front: typescript poem "To V.P.D.", signed "With best love / Wyndham Ketton-Cremer / July 1926" [i.e. to Villiers David (1906-1985) from Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]. Provenance: pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Bt. in London in 1987 for Felbrigg J.F.F.". Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'H.M. Gilbert & Son, Ye Old Boke Shoppe, 19, The Square, Winchester"'. Bookseller's price and code on front free endpaper: "£15" and "5/10". Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Villiers David from David Fremantle and Wyndham Ketton-Cremer." followed by long dedicatory inscription "To Villiers David Esquire ... [on his twentieth birthday] ... D.F." Binding: twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; single blind fillet to form a border on upper board; title and author blind-stamped onto upper board; gilt lettering and gilt fillets on spine.
Makers and roles
John Alfred Gotch (1852-1942), author