An ambassador of peace : pages from the diary of Viscount d'Abernon (Berlin, 1920-1926) ... / With historical notes by Maurice Alfred Gerothwohl ...
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon (1857-1941)
Category
Books
Date
1929 - 1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251067
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : ill., col. map (fold.), ports. ; 26 cm. Ephemera: loosely inserted bookseller's advertisement postcard in vol. 3. 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)] in vol. 1. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)] in vol. 2. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's purple cloth; gilt stamped coat of arms (presumably those of Viscount d'Abernon) on upper boards; gilt lettered spines.
Makers and roles
Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon (1857-1941), author Maurice Alfred Gerothwohl (1877-1941), editor