Red Wagon : a story of the tober / Eleanor Smith.
Smith, Eleanor
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255735
Summary
Bibliographic description
368 p. ; 8vo. Ephemera: loosely inserted letter, undated, to "Huttleston" from "Eleanor", thanking him for his letter saying he had liked the book [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author Eleanor Smith (1902-1945)]. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "Huttleston / with best wishes from the Author / November 11th 1930" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author Eleanor Smith (1902-1945)]. 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 green 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; gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Robson & Co. Ltd. W.1.'
Makers and roles
Smith, Eleanor, author