The scarlet tree : being the second volume of Left hand, right hand! An autobiography / by Osbert Sitwell.
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet Sitwell (1892-1969)
Category
Books
Date
1946
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257996
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 318, [2] p., [12] 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): 'The scarlet tree' 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.' Original endpapers with author's handprints retained.
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet Sitwell (1892-1969), author John Piper (Epsom 1903 – Henley-on-Thames 1992), original artist