Rifleman and Hussar / by Colonel Sir Percival Marling … ; with a foreword by Field-Marshal the Viscount Plumer ...
Marling, Percival, Sir
Category
Books
Date
1931
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257706
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 412, [4] p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., maps, plan, ports. ; 8vo. Pencil date and code on rear pastedown: "12/31 x" and "O/S." Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (sailing ship with Fairhaven arms on sails): ‘Sapphire R.Y.S.’ and ‘Broughton’ [i.e. from the library of the yacht ‘Sapphire’, owned by Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929), later by Cara Leland Rogers, Lady Fairhaven (1867-1939)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's green cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: Marling family crest; gilt lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Marling, Percival, Sir, author Field-Marshall Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer of Messines, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (1857-1932), author