Episodes and reflections : being some records from the life of Major-General Sir Wyndham Childs ...
Childs, Wyndham, Sir, 1876-1946
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255635
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 287, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "I fear that the cover is / better than the book. / B.E.W. Childs / 4/10/30" [i.e. Sir Wyndham Childs (1876-1946)]. 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 red 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: 'Robson & Co. Ltd. W.1.'
Makers and roles
Childs, Wyndham, Sir, 1876-1946, author