The English eccentrics / by Edith Sitwell.
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887-1964)
Category
Books
Date
1933
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260065
Summary
Bibliographic description
332 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by the Sitwells. With two blank leaves at end. 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 light brown morocco, light brown cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt panelled spine compartments; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; brown spine label, gilt lettered: 'The English eccentrics / Sitwell'; gilt top edge; light blue-grey endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.' Original front wrapper retained.
Makers and roles
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (1887-1964), author