The English country house / by Ralph Dutton ; with a foreword by Osbert Sitwell ; illustrated from photographs by Will F. Taylor and others.
Ralph Dutton, 8th Lord Sherborne (1898 - 1985)
Category
Books
Date
1935
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260263
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 120, 31, [1] p., front., [49] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 8vo. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. Lacks final advertisement leaves. Pencil note at head of rear free endpaper: "Eng country houses / End". 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 English country house' and 'Ralph Dutton'; 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
Ralph Dutton, 8th Lord Sherborne (1898 - 1985), author Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet Sitwell (1892-1969), author Taylor, Will. F, photographer