Shelfmark
Oh.5.27
Author
Title
The whispering gallery : being leaves from a diplomat's diary.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1926.
Physical description
x, 258 p. ; 23 cm.
Note
Name of author from LOC record.
Note
"A pseudo-diary, withdrawn three days after publication following a storm over the author's identity: to facilitate publication Pearson had attached the name of Rennell Rodd to the diplomatic memoir he presented to the publisher - an act that drew indignation both from Rodd and from The Bodley Head, who sued their author for fraud."-- Blackwell's Cat. B191.
Provenance
Presented to Eton College by Eugen Millington-Drake in 1938.
Binding
Dark blue leather quarter binding with gilt lettering on spine, gilt top edge, marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, with original paper covers ; bound by Best & Co.
Copy-specific note
At request of Eugen Millington-Drake, ms. inscription in ink on front endpaper by Ian Walker, dated 1926.
Copy-specific note
Newspaper cuttings with ms. annotations dating them to 1926 and 1927, pasted into front endpapers.
Subject
Diplomats.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Bodley Head (Firm) publisher.
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Walker, Ian inscriber.
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Best & Co. binder.
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John Lane Company publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B31070