Khaki and gown : an autobiography / by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes ... ; With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, ...
Field Marshall, William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951)
Category
Books
Date
1941
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255651
Summary
Bibliographic description
456 p., frontis. port, [15] plates : ill., maps (col., some fold.), ports. ; 8vo. Final paragraph added in manuscript by Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951) on p. 440-[441]. Ephemera: 2 postcards and 2 letters to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951) loosely inserted: (1) postcard, 13 Sept. [1944], thanks Lord Fairhaven for his greetings; (2) letter, 14 Sept. [1945] thanks Lord Fairhaven for birthday greetings; (3) postcard, [postmarked 18 Dec. 1948] thanks Lord Fairhaven for his greetings; (4) letter, 10 June [194-?] thanks Lord Fairhaven for his comments on the book, admires the binding and agrees to add an inscription, hopes to visit Anglesey Abbey sometime. Manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "I much hope that my / friend Lord Fairhaven / a comrade of Cambridge / days may find / something of interest / in these pages to / help pass the time / in his lovely home. / Birdwood of Anzac. / F.M. / June 4." [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951)]. 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; marbled endpapers; red ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Field Marshall, William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1865-1951), author Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Woodstock 1874 - London 1965), author