Summary of work / Red Cross and St. John War Organisation.
Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem
Category
Books
Date
Oct 1939 - Dec 1946
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3252797
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. ; 20 cm. Holdings: nos. 1-171 (Oct. 1939- Dec. 1946). Supplements to no. 16 (18 May 1940) and no. 33 (11 Jan. 1941) bound in after the relevant numbers. 43 blank leaves bound in after no. 171 in vol. 7. Ephemera: two appeal flyers (both 1940) and an order of service for "A service of prayer and music" at Westminster Abbey (3 June 1940) bound in vol. 1. 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 vols. 2-5, and 7. Gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spines [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half white morocco, red cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; red morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Red Cross and St. John War Organisation' and 'Summary of work / Vol. I[-VII] 1939-1940[-1946]'; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spines [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edges. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedowns: 'Birdsall Northampton.'.
Makers and roles
Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, author