Not worth reading / by Sir George Arthur … ; with a foreword by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood ; with eight illustrations.
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946)
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255646
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [3], 299, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ports. ; 8vo. Ephemera: tipped-in letter, undated, to "Huttleston" from [illegible initials], thanking him for his comments on his last book [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) presumably from Sir George Arthur (1860-1946)]. Provenance: Pencil initial "F" [erased] and number [erased, illegible] at head of title page [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 burgundy 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; marbled endpapers; red ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946), author Field Marshall, William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951), author