Old friends: Essays in epistolary parody by Andrew Lang.
Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3225341
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii, [1], 205, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 18 cm. Pencil note to flyleaf verso: '1st Ed.' Provenance: Two inscriptions: 'A "five minutes book" / for Sir Courtauld Thomson's / table / from / Austen Chamberlain / Eton, Winchester / 1923' [i.e. from Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (1863-1937), son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain]; 'Andrew Lang was literary adviser to / my family firm. As a guest at Dorneywood I have been asked to sign my name on this page. December 11th, 1949. Mark Longman'; Armorial bookplate signed H.J.F. Badeley 1945: Courtauld-Thomson Dorneywood [with motto: Fortiter aut suaviter. i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)]; autograph letter pasted to front free endpaper from Austen Chamberlain (an extension of the sentiments in the inscription (above), dated 17/07/1923; black ink stamp: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: late nineteenth-century smooth blue cloth over boards, white paper spine, lettered and ruled gold, black endpapers.
Makers and roles
Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912), author