Over the oceans for 600,000 miles : a rough journal of travel / by Major H. Maitland Kersey.
H. Maitland Kersey
Category
Books
Date
1932
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3247528
Summary
Bibliographic description
356 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "To Huttleston / In memory of many / happy days on / "Sapphire" / from / Maitland / June 1932". [i.e. from the author, Henry Maitland Kersey, to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: 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.: 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
H. Maitland Kersey, author