Two generations / with a preface, and edited, by Osbert Sitwell.
Georgiana Caroline Swinton
Category
Books
Date
1940
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257933
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxvii, [1], 308 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. (23 cm). Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Sitwell. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half red morocco, marbled paper over boards; five raised bands; gilt panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Two generations' and 'Osbert Sitwell'; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edge. Binder's ink stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Georgiana Caroline Swinton, author Florence Alice Sitwell (1858-1930), author Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet Sitwell (1892-1969), editor