Famous trials of history / by the Rt. Honourable the Earl of Birkenhead ...
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, MP (1872-1928)
Category
Books
Date
1926
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255793
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. vii, [3], 11-311, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance; Manuscript inscription on front free endpaper: "To my dear old / friend Urban / from / F E / Xmas 1928" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; single gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto four raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Famous trials of history' and 'Earl of Birkenhead'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt top edge. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, GCSI, MP (1872-1928), author