My American visit / by The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Smith, Bart., ...
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, MP (1872-1928)
Category
Books
Date
1918
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3246680
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xiv, [2], 288 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on leaf preceding half-title: "To my friend Huttleston from Frederick Smith June 1918" [i.e. from the author, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930) to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full crimson morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto four recessed cords; five false bands; gilt fillets on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'My American visit', 'Sir F. Smith' and '1918'; triple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt top edge. Binder's name gilt tooled on front turn-in: 'Truslove & Hanson. Clifford Street. W.'
Makers and roles
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, MP (1872-1928), author