Return to the forest / by the Earl of Bessborough.
Bessborough, Frederick Ponsonby, Earl of
Category
Books
Date
1962
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238213
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 280 p. : plan ; 23 cm. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil inscription on verso of front free endpaper: "Fairhaven. / Haven House. / June 1964.". Manuscript inscription on third front free endpaper: "For Huttleston / Fairhaven / With the author's compliments / and grateful thanks / for a most enjoyable / stay at Anglesey Abbey. / Bessborough / April 1964" [i.e. to Lord Fairhaven from Frederick Edward Neuflize Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough (1913-1993)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full green 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; five false bands; four recessed cords; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; decorated endpapers; green silk ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: Craftsmen Binders Ltd., Northampton.
Makers and roles
Bessborough, Frederick Ponsonby, Earl of, author