King Edward VII : a biography / by Sir Sidney Lee ...
Sir Sidney (Solomon) Lazarus Lee (1859-1926)
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251634.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 23cm (8vo). Pencil number (erased) on front free endpaper verso: "2197". 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 brown morocco; double gilt fillet and gilt roll to form an outer border; gilt rolled inner border: rose stems; gilt stamped cornerpieces: St. George killing the dragon, within a frame of flowers and leaves; sewn onto four raised bands with one false band; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Sir Sidney Lee / King Edward VII' and 'Vol. I'; remaining spine compartments gilt stamped with St. George killing the dragon, coat of arms of the British royal family, and a crown; gilt rolled board edges; double gilt fillet and gilt roll of rose stems on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; green watered silk endleaves; light green, red and yellow ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Dreyfous 3-5 Berkeley St. Piccadilly'.
Makers and roles
Sir Sidney (Solomon) Lazarus Lee (1859-1926), author