The Oxford dictionary of quotations.
Alice Mary Smyth
Category
Books
Date
1941
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3256786
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvii, [1], 879, [1] p. ; 25 cm. Pencil price on front pastedown: "25/-". Pencil code on front pastedown: "gltu". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "9/41". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / from [G C W?] / Anglesey Abbey / August 31st 1941" [i.e. to 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 spine; blue top edge.
Makers and roles
Alice Mary Smyth, editor