Clothes / James Laver.
James Laver (1899-1975)
Category
Books
Date
1952
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260070
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 272 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. (7 col.) ; 8vo. Pencil price on front pastedown: "21/-". Bookseller's pencil code on front pastedown: "gh/x". Pencil date on rear pastedown: "B [i.e. bought?] 1/53". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown: ‘Bowes & Bowes / New & Second-hand Booksellers / Trinity Street, Cambridge’. Binding: Twentieth-century full cream publisher's cloth; gilt stamped monogram in red oval on upper board: "PL" [i.e. Pleasures of life series]; gilt fillets on spine; gilt lettered title in red spine panel; red lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
James Laver (1899-1975), author