The Torrington diaries : containing the tours through England and Wales of the Hon. John Byng (later fifth viscount Torrington) between the years 1781 and 1794. / Edited, with an introduction, by C. Bruyn Andrews and with a general introduction by John Beresford.
John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (1742-1813)
Category
Books
Date
1934 - 1938
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3134965
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates (some fold.) : ill., facsims., geneal. table, ports. ; 23 cm. Pencil dates on rear pastedowns: in v. 1: "8/34"; in v. 2: "6/35"; in v. 3: "9/36"; in v. 4: "1/38". Ephemera: loosely inserted in v. 3: two pre-printed publisher's postcards for requesting catalogues. 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)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's grey cloth; gilt stamped centrepiece on upper boards: Torrington crest; gilt-lettered spines; grey top edges.
Makers and roles
John Byng, 5th Viscount Torrington (1742-1813), author Cyril Bruyn Andrews (b.1885), editor