Men of taste : from Pharaoh to Ruskin / by Martin S. Briggs ; illustrated from paintings, portraits and photographs.
Martin Shaw Briggs (b.1882)
Category
Books
Date
1947
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260083
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 232 p., plates : ill. (1 col.), ports. ; 23 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. Binder's[?] pencil note, erased, on front free endpaper: "Fairhaven 10613 4". 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 green morocco, green cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt panelled spine compartments, buff spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Men of taste' and 'Martin S. Briggs'; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Martin Shaw Briggs (b.1882), author