My horse Warrior / by Lord Mottistone (General Jack Seeley).
John Edward Bernard 'Jack' Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868 - 1947)
Category
Books
Date
1934
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247348
Summary
Bibliographic description
160 p. : ill., plates, ports. ; 22 cm. 'Reprinted October 1934' - t.p. verso. Title page in black type only. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board. Manuscript inscription on half-title: "To my friend Lord Fairhaven / with all good wishes / Mottistone / Mottistone Manor / Christmas 1934" [i.e. from the author, John Edward Bernard Seely, Baron Mottistone (1868-1947)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)] on upper board; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct: 'My horse Warrior' and 'Lord Mottistone'; double gilt fillet on board edges; quadruple gilt fillet on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; pale blue ribbon marker. Binder's name gilt tooled on rear turn-in: 'Robson & Co Ld'.
Makers and roles
John Edward Bernard 'Jack' Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868 - 1947), author Sir Alfred James Munnings, RA (Medham 1878 – Dedham 1959), illustrator