At the sign of the Reine Pédauque / by Anatole France ; translated by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson ; with an introduction by William J. Locke.
Anatole France (1844-1924)
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3249811
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, [2], 272, [8] p. ; 8vo. Some uncut leaves. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "7/6". Provenance: Pencil initials on front pastedown: "UHRB" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Embossed stamp on front free endpaper: 'U.H.R. Broughton.' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; triple cream fillets (thin-thick-thin) to form an outer border on upper board; cream lettered title on upper board with cream garland and medallion of Anatole France; gilt lettered spine; red top edge; yellow pictorial endpapers.
Makers and roles
Anatole France (1844-1924), author Jackson, Emilie, translator William John Locke (1863-1930), author Frederic Chapman (d.1918), editor