Drawing the R.A.F. : a book of portraits / Eric Kennington ; introduced by Sir Ronald Storrs.
Eric Henri Kennington, RA (Chelsea 1888 – Reading 1960)
Category
Books
Date
1942
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257466
Summary
Bibliographic description
143, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ports. (4 col.) ; 25 cm. Ephemera: loosely inserted copy of portrait 15 (Pilot Officer William Lidstone McKnight, D.F.C.). Pencil price on front pastedown: "12/6". Pencil code on front pastedown: "u/h". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "8/42". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey. / September 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 blue cloth; gilt lettered spine; blue top edge.
Makers and roles
Eric Henri Kennington, RA (Chelsea 1888 – Reading 1960), original artist Sir Ronald Storrs (1881-1955), author