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THE CROWN & ANCHOR A CHELSEA QUARTO

Written by Reginald Blunt
Published by The Chelsea Publishing Company; The Cayme Press in 1925

THE CROWN & ANCHOR A CHELSEA QUARTO
Written by Reginald Blunt.
Stock no. 1606227
1st. 1925. Softcover. Large format. Good condition.

Large format. Blue card wraps, with decorative title onlay to front. B/w illustrations. Covers are grubby and edge chipped with some loss. Lower half of covers coming away from spine where glue has dried out. Scattered foxing. Some hinges pulled.

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Front cover

Cover of THE CROWN & ANCHOR A CHELSEA QUARTO by Reginald Blunt

Contents

  • The Prologue
  • The List of Illustrations
  • A Note on the Illustrations
  • The Cheyne Children. The Story of a Jubilee
  • Bloomsbury and Chelsea. By A. . Walkley
  • The People Next Door. By Randall Davies
  • Aliter Dicta. By Augustine Birrell
  • The Recollections of John Munday. With Notes by the Editor
  • Gifts of Silence. A Sonnet by Laurence Binyon
  • Weather Wise. A Shocking Tragedy by Noel Coward
  • "Meg, Nell, Fanny and Jane." A Lecture by Reginald Blunt
  • In the Physick Garden. By Justin Huntly McCarthy
  • "Furzefield," "Respite," and "In the Garden." Verses by Eveline Spenser
  • The Toilet of Flora, 1784. By Edith Place
  • Some Chelsea Houses and Their Ups and Downs. By Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson
  • A Balloon Ascent from Cremorne. By Colonel Sir Arthur Vivian
  • The Chelsea of the Sixties. Twelve photographs by James Hedderley, with Annotations by the Editor