The English castle / by Hugh Braun ; with a foreword by Hilaire Belloc ; illustrated from photographs and drawings.
Hugh Braun
Category
Books
Date
1936
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260269
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 120 p., frontis., [96] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. Binder's pencil note, erased, on rear free endpaper: "[English? ... ] 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 castle' and 'Hugh Braun'; 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
Hugh Braun, author Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), author