At the turn of the tide : a book of wild birds / by Richard Perry ; with reproductions of paintings by Peter Scott, John Duncan and Richard Harrison and of photographs by W.W. Nicholas, H.N. Southern, etc.
Perry, Richard
Category
Books
Date
1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256671
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 206, [2] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. (4 col.) ; 8vo. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "12/38". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey / 1939" [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's turquoise cloth; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Perry, Richard, author Sir Peter Markham Scott (London 1909 – 1989), original artist