History under fire : 52 photographs of air raid damage to London buildings, 1940-41 / by Cecil Beaton ; with a commentary by James Pope-Hennessy.
Richard James Arthur Pope-Hennessy (1916-1974)
Category
Books
Date
1941
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257375
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 117, [1] p., frontis. plate : ill. ; 24 cm. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "6/41". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey / January 1st 1942" [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 red cloth; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Richard James Arthur Pope-Hennessy (1916-1974), author Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), photographer