Life and letters of George Wyndham / by J.W. Mackail and Guy Wyndham.
John William Mackail (1859-1945).
Category
Books
Date
1920 - 1941
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251095
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: 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)]. Purple ink-stamp: ‘S.Y. SAPPHIRE.’ on front free endpaper. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; single blind fillet to form an outer border; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: arms of Wyndham impaling Lumley [i.e. arms of George Wyndham (1863-1913), married Sibell Mary Grosvenor, Countess Grosvenor (1855-1929), daughter of Richard Lumley, 9th Earl of Scarbrough, in 1887]; gilt lettered spines.
Makers and roles
John William Mackail (1859-1945)., author Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Percy Wyndham (1865 - 1941), author