Wit and wisdom of the shires / by Coronet (the late Col. Walter Faber ...) ; with foreword and biography by Major Guy Paget ; 50 illustrations by Charles Simpson, R.I.
Walter Faber (1857-1928)
Category
Books
Date
1932
Materials
Place of origin
Leicester
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251682
Summary
Bibliographic description
Edition-de-Luxe. [14], x, [2], 212 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) ; ill., map ; 27 cm. Copy no. 32, signed by Guy Paget. List of subscribers includes "The Lord Fairhaven of Lode" [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "12/32". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; single blind fillet to form an outer border; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: fox; five false bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Wit and wisdom of the shires' and 'Coronet (Faber)'; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Walter Faber (1857-1928), author Guy Paget (1886-1952), author Charles Walter Simpson (Camberley 1885 - Alverton 1971), illustrator