A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802: : including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting and other field amusements, as practised in that country ... in a series of letters to the Right Hon. the Earl of Darlington. To which is prefixed, an account of French wolf-hunting. / By Colonel Thornton, ... Illustrated ... In two volumes. ...
Thomas Thornton (1757-1823)
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3045484
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., port. ; 4to. 2 vols. bound in 1. Booksellers' notes on rear free endpaper. Manuscript note on rear free endpaper: "J.A. 7058. 9:11:1960" [presumably Major John Roland Abbey (1894-1969)]. Two pages of pencil notes by William Beckford (1760-1844), one bound in before each vol. Ephemera: loosely inserted (1) clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price £320); (2) typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "From the Beckford Library, with 2pp of MS notes" [i.e. from the library of William Beckford (1760-1844)]. Nineteenth-century shield in garter bookplate (not in Franks): 'Archibald Philip Earl of Rosebery' [i.e. Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929)]. Twentieth-century crest bookplate (not in Franks): 'R.N.H. Moore Stevens'. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'R.N.H. Moore Stevens'. Twentieth-century printed booklabel (not in Franks): 'J R Abbey' [i.e. Major John Roland Abbey (1894-1969)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (coat of arms in carved oval frame) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century green morocco label with gilt armorial shield, lettered: 'John Roland Abbey' [i.e. Major John Roland Abbey (1894-1969)] on front of protective box. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red straight-grained morocco; gilt rolls and blind fillets and rolls to form borders; sewn onto recessed cords; gilt and blind tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Thornton's Sporting tour through France'; William Beckford's emblem of a cross patté and a cinquefoil in the spine compartments; gilt rolled corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled and gilt edges. In dark red cloth-covered box; green morocco label (gilt lettered) on spine of box; green morocco label with gilt armorial shield, lettered: 'John Roland Abbey' [i.e. Major John Roland Abbey (1894-1969)] on front of box.
Makers and roles
Thomas Thornton (1757-1823), author