Shelfmark
Id7.3.06
Author
Title
Decline and fall : an illustrated novelette / Evelyn Waugh.
Edition
Reset and reprinted.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman and Hall Ltd., October, 1937.
Physical description
235 p., [6] p. of plates : [6] ill. ; 22 cm
Note
" First published -- September, 1928 ... Fifth impression -- May, 1930 ... First Reissued in Pocket Edition -- November, 1931. Reset and Reprinted -- October, 1937." -- title-page verso.
Note
Publisher's 20th-century blue cloth binding; author, title, and publisher stamped in gold on spine; bound by "G. and J. Kitcat, Ltd., London. Flexiback binding patent. No. 441294" (printed on title-page verso).
Provenance
Ms. inscription: "F. T. A. Ashton-Gwatkin, with the kindest regards of the author's [Evelyn Waugh] father, [signed] Arthur Waugh. Highgate. October : xxx : 1941. "Decline and Fall": twas Gibbon's name; But lo! a Grinling Gibbon came, And travestied the giant's fame.""
Provenance
Loose ALS from the author's father, Arthur Waugh, to Ashton-Gwatkin, dated Oct : xxx : 1941, giving the book him.
Provenance
From the library of Frank Ashton-Gwatkin.
Binding
With blue and white dust-jacket.
Added entry--name
Ashton-Gwatkin, Frank Trelawny Arthur, 1889 - 1976 former owner.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--name
G. & J. Kitcat Ltd. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B43564