George Stubbs and Ben Marshall / by Walter Shaw Sparrow ... ; with four plates in colour and eighty-two subjects in half-tone ... ; with an introduction by E. D. Cuming.
Walter Shaw-Sparrow (1862-1940)
Category
Books
Date
1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101092
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xv, [1], 80 p., [52] leaves of plates : 86 ill. (4 col.) ; facsim., ports. ; 4to. Copy no. 72. Pencil code and price on front pastedown: "a/a[?]/-" and "£3/3/-". Ephemera: loosely inserted card: "Xmas 1929 / For / Huttleston / from Philip / How would you like to own some of the originals in this book?" [i.e.: to Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Provenance: Pencil letter "F" on front pastedown [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)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'C.E. Brumwell / Bookseller & Stationer / 10 Broad Street / Hereford'. Binding: Twentieth-century full white cloth; gilt lettered upper board and spine; gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Walter Shaw-Sparrow (1862-1940), author Edward William Dirom Cuming (1862-1941), author