The sport of our ancestors : being a collection of prose and verse setting forth the sport of fox-hunting as they knew it / edited and selected with an introduction and appreciations by Lord Willoughby de Broke ; illustrated by G.D. Armour.
Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1869-1923)
Category
Books
Date
1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085797
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 279, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm. Pencil price on front pastedown: "21/-". Provenance: Pencil initials on front pastedown: "U.HR.B" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's red cloth; gilt stamped illustration at head of upper board: two foxhounds and a fox; gilt lettered spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke (1869-1923), author George Denholm Armour (North Lanarkshire 1864 - 1949) , illustrator