The romance of early British life : from the earliest times to the coming of the Danes / by G.F. Scott Elliot … ; with thirty illustrations.
George Francis Scott Elliot (1862 - 1934)
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257479
Summary
Bibliographic description
357, [3] p., [28] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "150 / net / XX= / 8/9". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): king, horses and people; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped man cutting mistletoe, gilt lettering and red and white stamped warriors on spine.
Makers and roles
George Francis Scott Elliot (1862 - 1934), author