The red romance book / edited by Andrew Lang ; with eight coloured plates and numerous illustrations by H.J. Ford.
Leonora Blanche Lang, Mrs Andrew Lang (1851-1933)
Category
Books
Date
1905
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258673
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 366, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (8 col.) ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.60 / net / 4X= / 9/6". Provenance: Pencil initials on front pastedown: "UHRB" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Blind embossed stamp on front free endpaper: Broughton family crest with motto 'Si je puis' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 red cloth; gilt fillet to form a border on upper board; gilt stamped illustration on upper board: the Red Cross Knight slaying the dragon; gilt stamped illustration on spine: a knight and a lady; gilt lettered spine; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Leonora Blanche Lang, Mrs Andrew Lang (1851-1933), author Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912), editor Henry Justice Ford (London 1860-1941), illustrator