Shelfmark
Lh.5.39 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Lh.5.40 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Lh.5.41 (Copy 3)
Title
Sober truth : a collection of nineteenth-century episode, fantastic, grotesque and mysterious / compiled and edited by Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell; with a preface by Osbert Sitwell.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Duckworth, 3 Henrietta Street, London, 1930.
Physical description
280 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., facsims.., ports.. ; 22 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
[Copy 1]: Publisher's yellow cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine.
Provenance
[Copy 1]: Bookplate of David Horner; manuscript inscription with illustrations: "For dear David, with affection, from Osbert. 1930".
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Manuscript bookseller's code and price in pencil.
Provenance
[Copy 2]: Booklabel of John and Myfanwy Piper; manuscript inscription: "For Myfanwy [Piper], on her birthday, with best wishes and many happy returns from Osbert ([asterisk] Sitwell), "This is now rendered necessary by the Lancastrian Usurper"."
Provenance
[Copy 3]: Bookseller's catalogue entry, loosely inserted, for this book; manuscript bookseller's codes and price in pencil (of the same seller?)
Binding
[Copy 1]: With dust-jacket.
Binding
[Copy 2]: Lacking dust-jacket.
Binding
[Copy 3]: Lacking dust-jacket.
Subject
English literature 19th century Literary collections
Added entry--name
Horner, David former owner.
Added entry--name
Sitwell, Osbert, 1892 - 1969 compiler, editor.
Added entry--name
Barton, Margaret, 1897 - ? compiler, editor.
Added entry--name
Duckworth publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B23283