Concerning Winston Spencer Churchill / by Sir George Arthur.
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946)
Category
Books
Date
1940
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256086
Summary
Bibliographic description
vii, [1], 200 p. ; 8vo. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on third front free endpaper: "With every good / wish that 1941 / may fill your / cup with / happiness / from the author / + his wife" [i.e. from Sir George Arthur (1860-1946)]. 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 brown 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. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur (1860-1946), author