A Batsford century : the record of a hundred years of publishing and bookselling 1843-1943 / edited by Hector Bolitho.
Henry Hector Bolitho (1898-1974)
Category
Books
Date
1943
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256694
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, [2], 147, [1] p., [26] p. of plates : ill. (2 col.), facsims., ports. ; 8vo. Ephemera: printed compliments postcard from the Directors of B.T. Batsford Ltd., sending a copy of the book. Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey / November 1943" [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 blue cloth; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Henry Hector Bolitho (1898-1974), author