A great agricultural estate : being the story of the origin and administration of Woburn and Thorney / by the Duke of Bedford.
Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford (1858-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260107
Summary
Bibliographic description
Second edition. [8], 254, 2 p. ; 8vo. Occasional pencil text marking. Pencil price[?] on front free endpaper verso: "4/6". Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper: "3. 8" and "4. 14". Provenance: Nineteenth-century booklabel (not in Franks): 'Charles Bidwell, Ely'. Manuscript inscription on title page: "Charles Bidwell / 1897". Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / from / John E. Bidwell / April 1942" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full publisher's green cloth; dark green lettering on upper board with dark green monogram of the Duke of Bedford (ducal coronet above the letter B); gilt lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford (1858-1940), author