Gathering up the threads : a study in family biography / by Florence Ada Keynes.
Florence Ada Brown, Mrs John Neville Keynes (1861-1958)
Category
Books
Date
1950
Materials
Place of origin
Cambridge
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255627
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1], 120 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. Ephemera: two letters loosely inserted (one undated, one 30 Oct. 1950) to Lord Fairhaven from Florence A. Keynes [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Florence Ada Keynes (1861-1958)], on Lord Fairhaven's appreciation of the book, hoping to meet one day and thanks for a gift of partridges. Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "My little book, 'neat and trimly dressed,' is proud to have a modest place in the Library of a friend. F.A. Keynes" [i.e. the author, Florence Ada Keynes (1861-1958)]. 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)]. Gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt-panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled) with title and author; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Florence Ada Brown, Mrs John Neville Keynes (1861-1958), author