Queen Alexandra : a pictorial biography 1844-1925 / with literary accompaniment by Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Count P. Ahlefeldt-Laurvig and C. Brudenell-Bruce.
Cecil of Chelwood, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255902
Summary
Bibliographic description
[1], 44 leaves, [51] leaves of plates : ports. ; 4to. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "12/25". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full white cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: shield bearing Viking ship with motto 'Sea King's daughter from over the sea' with two smaller shields bearing the arms of King Edward VII and of Queen Alexandra; gilt stamped facsimile signature of Queen Alexandra on upper board; gilt lettered spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Cecil of Chelwood, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount, author Ahlefeldt-Laurvig, Preben Ferdinand, greve, author Brudenell-Bruce, Charles Frederick, Lord, author