The romance of heraldry / by C. Wilfrid Scott-Giles … Illustrated by the author.
Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles (1893-1982)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260354
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, [2], 234 p. : 259 ill. ; 26 cm. Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) press cutting from 'John O' London's weekly', 4 Jan. 1930: review of the book; (2) blank half sheet of paper. Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "With the author's love and / best wishes, remembering / many happy hours spent / at Bottisham. / Christmas 1929" [i.e. from Charles Wilfrid Scott-Giles (1893-1982), presumably to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's blue cloth; single blind fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt stamped centrepiece: coat of arms of England with centaurs and mythical beasts; gilt lettered spine; blue top edge.
Makers and roles
Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles (1893-1982), author