Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. / from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. Containing one hundred plates. With a supplement of New South Wales.
Thomas Williamson (1758/9 - 1817)
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Book with half green morocco binding.
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3018821
Summary
Bibliographic description
[162] p., [100] leaves of plates; [20] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Imperfect?: wanting plate no. 25 ("Russians fishing in winter"); pencil note on list of plates: "No. 25 never issued". Provenance: Nineteenth-century manuscript inscription at head of title page: "John, Leslie, Cuming". Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "F from HRB August 31st 1939" [i.e. to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from his brother, Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven (1900-1973)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century half straight-grained green morocco; marbled paper over boards; green morocco label on upper board, gilt lettered: 'Foreign field sports / Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, etc. / 1814'; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Foreign field sports' and 'Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, etc.'.
Makers and roles
Thomas Williamson (1758/9 - 1817), author John Heaviside Clark (1770-1863), author William Samuel Howitt (1756 – London 1822), original artist