Life in America : a special loan exhibition of paintings held during the period of the New York World's Fair, April 24 to October 29.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Category
Books
Date
1939
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256282
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxix, [3], 230, [2] p. : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Provenance: 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 stamped Fairhaven crest at foot of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half blue morocco, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto four recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Life in America - 1939'; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at foot of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edge. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York , author