Diary of a trip on "Sapphire" R.YS / by U.H.R.B. November 14th 1924 to [May 2nd 1925].
Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896 - 1966)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1924 - 1925
Materials
Place of origin
Europe
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3255921
Summary
Bibliographic description
[238] p., bound ; 27 cm. Ephemera: two press cuttings, undated, loosely inserted: (1) from The evening news on the sale of pictures from Althorp House; (2) picture of the Vanadis, "the largest diesel cruising yacht in the world". Provenance: Gilt tooled initials on upper board: 'U.H.R.B.' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 brown morocco; single gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt tooled initials on upper board: 'U.H.R.B.' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; metal locking clasp (key present). Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Asprey. 166 New Bond St. W.'
Makers and roles
Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Baron Fairhaven (1896 - 1966), author