John Betjeman's collected poems / compiled and with an introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead.
Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)
Category
Books
Date
1958
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247441
Summary
Bibliographic description
Autographed edition. xxvi, [2], 279, [1] p. ; 20 cm. No. 71 of autographed edition, signed "John Betjeman." on front free endpaper. 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt stamped): 'John Betjeman's collected poems'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. In marbled paper-covered slip case.
Makers and roles
Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) , author Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead (1907-1975), editor