Tapestry, the mirror of civilization / by Phyllis Ackerman.
Phyllis Ackerman (1893 - 1977)
Category
Books
Date
1933
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3249772
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 451, [1] p., XLVIII p. of plates ; 24 cm. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "8/33". Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) scrap of paper used as a marker; (2) newspaper cutting, dated July 24, 1937, on the sale of items of Beauvais tapestry. 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 publisher's red cloth; gilt lettered spine; yellow top edge.
Makers and roles
Phyllis Ackerman (1893 - 1977), author