The Incredible Adventures Of Professor Branestawm

HUNTER, Norman & HEATH ROBINSON, W., (Ed.)

Published by John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1933

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First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Orange cloth with black titles to spine. Illustrated endpapers. 76 illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Adverts to rear Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to bruised corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned right hand side of front board. Patchy marks to rear board. Tightly bound with lightly spotted margins to intact endpapers. Light spotting to some preliminary gutters. Spotting to title page. Spotting and light marks to some gutters. Prev owners name in pencil to ffep. DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 204, 4. Size: 8vo 21.5cm by 17cm. PROVENANCE: Donald Anderson. [Nigel] Donald Anderson (Hamptworth Estate). Son of Nigel James Moffat and Daphne Anderson. Nigel James Moffatt Anderson (1920-2008). Born 1920 in Melbourne to Lieutenant Colonel John Hubback Anderson (of the Australian Imperial Force) and Ruby Clara Moffat he was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford. In 1939, he joined the 4th (Territorial Army) Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Took part in the Norwegian Campaign of April to June 1940, and won one of the earliest Military Crosses of the war. He was seriously wounded in 1941. After the war became a schoolmaster at Radley College. In 1952 he inherited the Hamptworth estate from a cousin (Hugh Charles Cumberbatch and his wife Lucy Alice Moffat). Elected to Wiltshire County Council in 1953. In 1974 he was Gazetted a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire and in 1991 appointed the 999th High Sheriff of Wiltshire. From 1981 to 1985 he chaired the committee of the Wiltshire Victoria County History, was also chairman of the Wiltshire Scouts Association and president of the Wiltshire Youth Orchestra. Nigel Anderson met his wife Daphne [nee Siggins] while serving with the British Army in Northern Ireland and they had one son, Donald Anderson, who succeeded to the estate. Hamptworth Estate (1579 - 2018). Between 1579 -1869 the estate passed between from Gifford, Stockman, Chaplin, Duncombe, Shafto families. Thereafter, it passed to; 1870 - George Morrison, 1884 - Barbara Morrison (wife of George), 1907 - H.C. Moffatt (nephew of George), 1945 - H.C. Cumberbatch (nephew of H.C. Moffatt), 1957 - N.J.M. Anderson (Grandson of H.C. Moffatt), 2012 - Donald Anderson. Seller Inventory # 9324

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Incredible Adventures Of Professor ...

Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head, London

Publication Date: 1933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ

Edition: 1st Edition.