The story of the Bible / written and drawn by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944)
Category
Books
Date
1924
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3258810
Summary
Bibliographic description
xviii, [2], 21-413, [3] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (13 col.) ; 8vo. Yellow star sticker on front pastedown. Ephemera: loosely inserted publisher's bookmark. 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 blue cloth; single blind fillets on upper board to form an outer border, a border for the title and a border for the pictorial paper onlay; blue, black and white pictorial paper onlay on upper board: illustration of Bethlehem; white lettering on upper board; gilt lettered spine; blue top edge.
Makers and roles
Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1944), author