King George V : a sketch of a great ruler / by Sir George Arthur.
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238207
Summary
Bibliographic description
[i]-ix, [3], 13-359, [1] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription on half-title: "All your history points / to men who have / spent themselves in the / service of their country, / and to whom full / justice has not been / done until long / after they themselves / have passed away / G. Arthur / Anglesey Abbey 1930 / Amicus amica." [i.e. from Sir George Arthur (1860-1946) presumably to Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: $zBinding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt-panelled spine with gilt-lettered spine title; sewn onto five raised bands; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: Robson & Co. Ltd. W.1.
Makers and roles
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946), author