The English abbey : its life and work in the Middle Ages / by F.H. Crossley... ; with a foreword by the Right Hon. W. Ormsby-Gore ... ; illustrated by photographs by the author and others, and by drawings by Brian Cook.
Frederick Herbert Crossley (1868-1955).
Category
Books
Date
1935
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260265
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 114 p., [53] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (3 col.), map, plans ; 23 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. Binder's[?] pencil note at head of rear free endpaper (partially trimmed away): "Fair[haven] / [Abbeys] / 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 abbey' and 'F.H. Crossley'; 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
Frederick Herbert Crossley (1868-1955)., author Ormsby-Gore, William George Arthur, author Batsford, Brian Cook, illustrator