THE CROWN & ANCHOR A CHELSEA QUARTO
Written by Reginald Blunt
Published by The Chelsea Publishing Company; The Cayme Press
in 1925
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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.
Front cover
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