English night-life : from Norman curfew to present black-out / by Thomas Burke ; illustrated from prints, paintings, drawings and photographs.
Thomas Sydney Burke (1887-1945)
Category
Books
Date
1941
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260304
Summary
Bibliographic description
ix, [1], 150 p., frontis. plate, [80] plates (some col.) : ill. ; 23 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works published by Batsford. Binder's pencil note on half-title: "Fairhaven / 3107" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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: 'English night-life' and 'Thomas Burke'; 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
Thomas Sydney Burke (1887-1945), author