Belgium / painted by Amédée Forestier ; text by George W.T. Omond.
George William Thomson Omond (1846-1929)
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3250575
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 390 p., 77, [1] leaves of plates (1 folded) : col. ill., map ; 23 cm. With eight page publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Ephemera: loosely inserted bookmark from the Scottish Widows' Fund. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "7/6". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's black cloth; yellow and orange fillets to form an outer border on upper board; yellow coat of arms of Belgium and yellow lettering on upper board; yellow and orange fillets and gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
George William Thomson Omond (1846-1929), author Sir Amédée Forestier (Paris 1861-1930) , illustrator