Adventure / by Major-General the Right Hon. J.E.B. Seely … ; with illustrations from portraits by Sir William Orpen, … & A.J. Munnings, … & an introduction by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Birkenhead …
John Edward Bernard 'Jack' Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868 - 1947)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255637
Summary
Bibliographic description
[18], 326 p., frontis. port., plates : ill., ports, maps (fold., col.) ; 23 cm. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "To my friend Lord Fairhaven / with every good wish from / John Bernard Seely / Mottistone Manor / Isle of Wight / August 8th 1930. / Written on board the yacht / "Sapphire" R.Y.S. 8.8.30." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, John Edward Bernard Seely (1868-1947)]. 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
John Edward Bernard 'Jack' Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868 - 1947), author Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen KBE, RA, RHA (Stillorgan 1878 - London 1931), original artist Sir Alfred James Munnings, RA (Medham 1878 – Dedham 1959), original artist Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, MP (1872-1928), author