The Bible : designed to be read as literature / edited and arranged by Ernest Sutherland Bates.
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
Category
Books
Date
1950 - 1959
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251599
Summary
Bibliographic description
Fourth edition. xxxi, [1], 1237, [1] p : ill., 2 col. maps ; 25 cm. Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Read from beginning to end at Anglesey Abbey / during Lent 1955. / Fairhaven." [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full dark blue morocco; five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The Bible' and 'Designed to be read as literature'; single blind fillet on board edges; blind fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf, London, England.'.
Makers and roles
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), author Ernest Sutherland Bates (1879-1938), editor