Newmarket: : its sport and personalities / by Frank Silzter ; a foreword by the Earl of Durham, K.G. With thirty-two illustrations in colour and half-tone.
Frank Siltzer
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3086180
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, 279, [1] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. (24cm). Extra-illustrated. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£22-10-0". Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "86 plates added, 17 of them coloured, / several very rare." Pencil code on rear endpaper: "o/-/-". Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full dark red morocco; triple gilt fillet and single gilt roll to form a border; gilt stamped cornerpieces: horseshoe and riding whip; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Newmarket its sports and personalities' and 'Siltzer [gilt stamped leaf] Extra illustrated'; gilt stamped riding hat and riding whip in third spine compartment, gilt stamped horse and rider in remaining spine compartments; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; dark red silk endleaves; red ribbon marker. Binder's stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Root & Son. London.'.
Makers and roles
Frank Siltzer, author Durham, John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham (1855-1928), author