An onlooker in France, 1917-1919 / by Sir William Orpen...
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen KBE, RA, RHA (Stillorgan 1878 - London 1931)
Category
Books
Date
1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3224036
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [1], 12- 123, [1] p., 96 leaves of plates : ill., ports ; 24 cm. Provenance: letter from the author on note paper with printed heading of Traveller's Club Paris pasted to front pastedown: 'My Dear Sir [i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)] - you can bloody well / bill me as much as you like - but don't / you dare to say I would ever refuse / to "crack a bottle" perish the thought! / I am very pleased you saw anything in the book ... I suppose it has / made me a few more enemies ... 1st May 1921'; pen and ink sketch of man drinking to front flyleaf accompanied by an authorial inscription: 'dedicated with affection / and sweet memory of Joshua Barr and a Rols Royce / to Sir Courtauld Thomson / by William Orpen ...'; black ink stamp on flyleaf: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: publisher's green cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen KBE, RA, RHA (Stillorgan 1878 - London 1931)