Beaumont-Wright (Daphne, binder).- Monro (Harold, editor) Twentieth Century Poetry: An Anthology..., reprint, inscribed by Daphne Beaumont-Wright to Sir Mortimer Wheeler "Rik, It was bound to be late for your first 80th birthday! Pip, with love. September 1970" on front free endpaper, with A.Pc.s. from the binder bequeathing the book to Anthony Dowd loosely inserted, bound in crushed russet goatskin, by Daphne Beaumont-Wright, covers tooled in gilt with central ring of trefoils, triple rule border and trefoil corner-pieces, spine titled in gilt with ruled compartments and four raised bands, signed in ink at foot of rear paste-down, t.e.g., russet goatskin-backed cloth drop-back box, 8vo (175 x 120mm.), 1930. ⁂ Daphne Beaumont-Wright "Pip" was a bookbinder in the traditional style who taught several later binders. She bound this work for the 80th birthday of Sir Mortimer Wheeler an eminent archaeologist who promoted interest in archaeology through his appearances on television during the 1950s.
Beaumont-Wright (Daphne, binder).- Monro (Harold, editor) Twentieth Century Poetry: An Anthology..., reprint, inscribed by Daphne Beaumont-Wright to Sir Mortimer Wheeler "Rik, It was bound to be late for your first 80th birthday! Pip, with love. September 1970" on front free endpaper, with A.Pc.s. from the binder bequeathing the book to Anthony Dowd loosely inserted, bound in crushed russet goatskin, by Daphne Beaumont-Wright, covers tooled in gilt with central ring of trefoils, triple rule border and trefoil corner-pieces, spine titled in gilt with ruled compartments and four raised bands, signed in ink at foot of rear paste-down, t.e.g., russet goatskin-backed cloth drop-back box, 8vo (175 x 120mm.), 1930. ⁂ Daphne Beaumont-Wright "Pip" was a bookbinder in the traditional style who taught several later binders. She bound this work for the 80th birthday of Sir Mortimer Wheeler an eminent archaeologist who promoted interest in archaeology through his appearances on television during the 1950s.
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