Cheiro's memoirs : the reminiscences of a society palmist, including interviews with King Edward the Seventh, W.E. Gladstone, C.S. Parnell, H.M. Stanley, Madame Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, Professor Max Müller, Blanche Roosevelt, the Comte de Paris, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Russell of Killowen, Robert Ingersoll, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mrs. Langtry, "Mark Twain", W.T. Stead, Richard Croker, Mlle. Janotha, and others ; with twenty-two illustrations.
Cheiro
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256449
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. xvi, 213, [11] p., 22 leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Pencil code and price on front free endpaper verso: "J/H/L" and "3/6 net". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'F.J. Parsons, Ltd. / Booksellers & Stationers, / 86 Sandgate Rd., Folkestone." Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; double gilt fillet (thick and thin) at head and foot of upper board and spine; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt stamped hand (palm facing outwards) on spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Cheiro, author