The iconography of St. Thomas of Canterbury / by Tancred Borenius, Esq. … ; communicated to the Society of Antiquaries.
(Carl) Tancred Borenius (1885 - 1948)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248456
Summary
Bibliographic description
[3], 30-54 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 4to. Ephemera: loosely inserted letter to Lord Fairhaven from the author, 1st July 1931, sending the book as a souvenir of his visit [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from Tancred Borenius (1885-1948)]. 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 quarter blue cloth, blue-grey paper over boards; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: head of St. Thomas à Becket from stained glass panel (also printed as tail-piece on p. 54); gilt stamped title on upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
(Carl) Tancred Borenius (1885 - 1948), author Society of Antiquaries of London, publisher