Driving
John Sturgess
Category
Books
Date
1890
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Castle Drogo, Devon
NT 3189768
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 426, [4] p., frontis., [5] leaves of plates :. ill. ;. 8vo.,. 20 cm. Provenance: Purchased from Anthony Drewe. Price in pencil on verso of flyleaf: `9/6, cash 8/-‘. Binding: Half blue leather binding, with light brown cloth over boards, with gold lettering on spine and royal crest in gold on front (as issued, for deluxe edition). Crest has mottos: `Honi soit qui mal y pense' and `Mutare vel timore sperno'. Blue linen bookmark inserted. Gilt top edge. Uniformly bound with series.
Makers and roles
John Sturgess Godfrey Douglas Giles (1857 - 1941) Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (1824-1899)