The cathedrals of England / by Harry Batsford ... and Charles Fry ; with a foreword by Hugh Walpole ; illustrated from drawings by Brian Cook and from photographs.
Harry Batsford (1880-1951)
Category
Books
Date
1934
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260256
Summary
Bibliographic description
x, 118, 31, [1] p., [98] p. of plates : ill. (1 col.), map, plans ; 23 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. Lacks final advertisement leaves. Pencil checkmarks against names of many of the cathedrals in contents list on p. x. 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: 'The cathedrals of England' and 'H. Batsford & C. Fry'; gilt stamped Fairhaven crest at head of spine [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Original endpapers retained. Binder's stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Harry Batsford (1880-1951), author Charles Fry (b.1903), author Sir Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford (Gerrards Cross 1910-1991), illustrator Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941), author