Shooting by moor, field and shore : a practical guide to modern methods, / by Eric Parker, Leslie Sprake, Major Portal, Major Pollard, J.C.M. Nichols, Richard Clapham, Lt-Col. Badcock, Dugald Macintyre, Francis Cautley, Iain Ramsay, P.D. Williams, A. Hipgrave, Alban F.L. Bacon, … & James Andrews ... ; with one hundred & fifty illustrations.
Eric Parker (1870-1955)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101003
Summary
Bibliographic description
380 p., plates : ill. ; 8vo. Copy no. 86. Signed by the author and the original artist of the frontispiece. Shelved with other works from the Lonsdale library of sports, games & pastimes. Pencil price on front free endpaper verso: "£5/5- net". Pencil date on rear free endpaper: "25/11/29". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven / Anglesey Abbey / December 1929" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. 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 full blue morocco; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper board: coat of arms of the Earl of Lonsdale, gilt lettered 'The Lonsdale library'; small gilt stamped cornerpieces on upper board: Lonsdale monogram (coronet above the letter 'L'); recessed cords; blind fillets on spine; spine lettered direct (gilt stamped): 'The Lonsdale library' and 'Shooting by moor field & shore Parker & others'; gilt stamped coronets in remaining spine compartments; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; blue ribbon marker. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
Eric Parker (1870-1955), author Winifred Marie Louise Austen (Ramsgate 1876 - Bickley 1964), original artist