The face of Scotland / by Harry Batsford and Charles Fry ; with a foreword by John Buchan ; illustrated from drawings by Brian Cook and from photographs.
Harry Batsford (1880-1951)
Category
Books
Date
1937
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260257
Summary
Bibliographic description
Third edition, revised. x, 117, [1] p., [98] p. of plates : ill. (1 col.), 4 maps ; 22 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. 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 face of Scotland' 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. Binder's stamp on front pastedown: 'Birdsall Northampton.'
Makers and roles
Harry Batsford (1880-1951), author Charles Fry (b.1903), author John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (1875-1940), author Sir Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford (Gerrards Cross 1910-1991), illustrator