Tait McKenzie : a sculptor of youth / by Christopher Hussey.
Christopher Edward Clive Hussey (1899 - 1970)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250427
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 107, [1] p., plates : ill. ; 30 cm. Ephemera: Scraps of paper used as markers loosely inserted. Two letters to Lord Fairhaven from Tait McKenzie tipped in [i.e.: to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)]: (1) holograph, 26 June 1930, on having missed Lord Fairhaven at an exhibition, his recent work, and Lord Fairhaven's difficulty of placing of "The Plunger"; (2) typescript, 7 January 1937, thanks for sending pictures of Anglesey Abbey, appreciation of the house and of Blickling Hall. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven. / January 1930" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large 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 green cloth; gilt blocked centrepiece on upper board: McKenzie's 'The Plunger'; gilt lettered upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Christopher Edward Clive Hussey (1899 - 1970), author Country Life Limited , publisher