Winters of content : more discursions on travel, art, and life / by Osbert Sitwell.
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet Sitwell (1892-1969)
Category
Books
Date
1932
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260066
Summary
Bibliographic description
296 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by the Sitwells. 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: 'Winters of content / Sitwell'; gilt top edge; light blue-grey endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet Sitwell (1892-1969), author