Gamonia: or, The art of preserving game; : and an improved method of making plantations and covers explained and illustrated. / By Lawrence Rawstorne, ... with fifteen coloured drawings by J.T. Rawlins, taken on the spot.
Lawrence Rawstorne (1774-1850)
Category
Books
Date
1837
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101593
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiv, [3], 18-208 p., 15 leaves of col. plates ; 8vo. Pencil correction to page number on list of plates (p. [ix]). Ephemera: loosely inserted: (1) typescript catalogue card; (2) typescript description of book from bookdealer (price: £68); (3) clipping from bookdealer's catalogue (copy of plate). Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial crest bookplate: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: 'Thomas Greig Glencarse' [i.e. Thomas Greig of Glencarse (1801-1884)]. Manuscript inscription on second front free endpaper: "From the Author." [i.e. from Lawrence Rawstorne (1774-1850)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full green morocco, double gilt fillet and gilt roll to form an outer border; spine gilt lettered (in Gothic font): 'Gamonia'; five recessed cords; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lawrence Rawstorne (1774-1850), author Thomas J. Rawlins , illustrator