History of celebrated English and French thorough-bred stallions and French mares which appeared on the turf from 1764 to 1887 / preceded by a preface from the Duke of Beaufort. Translated from the French by C.B. Pitman.
S. F. Touchstone
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100989
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxv, [1], 165, [1] p., LX leaves of plates : col. ill. ; obl. fol. Copy no 425. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "4/10/0". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Pencil inscription on front free endpaper verso: "Fairhaven Anglesey Abbey. September 1950". Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter red morocco, green cloth over boards; gilt lettered upper board: 'Race horses. thorough-bred stallions pedigree - description - history English and French S.F. Touchstone; gilt vignette of horse race on upper board; black printed centrepiece of two horseshoes on lower board; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Touchstone / Race horses and thoroughbred stallions' and 'One hundred and ninety four illustrations'; gilt top edge; floral patterned endpapers.
Makers and roles
S. F. Touchstone, author Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899), author Samuel Coulson Bell Pitman , translator