Fox-hunting / by Sir Charles Frederick, bt. ... [et al.] ; with five colour plates, eighteen reproductions of hunting pictures, forty-five illustrations.
Sir Charles Frederick (b.1876)
Category
Books
Date
1930
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101005
Summary
Bibliographic description
367, [3] p., plates : ill. (1 col.), maps ; 8vo. Copy no. 57. Signed by the author and the original artist of the frontispiece. Shelved with other works from the Lonsdale library of sports, games & pastimes. Ephemera: loosely inserted: publisher's advertisement flyer. Pencil number on front free endpaper verso: "1057." Pencil date on rear pastedown: "11/30". Provenance: 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 'Foxhunting Frederick & others'; gilt stamped coronets in remaining spine compartments; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; blue ribbon marker. Some uncut leaves.
Makers and roles
Sir Charles Frederick (b.1876), editor Lionel Edwards (Clifton 1878 - Salisbury 1966), original artist