A sporting tour through various parts of France in the year 1802 ...
Thomas Thornton (1757-1823)
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3207642
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates: ill. ; 4to. Provenance: Nineteenth-century small armorial badge bookplate with motto "Degeneranti genus opprobium" and lettered: "Calke Abbey library" [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Bt (1795-1844) or his son Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Bt (1824-86)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full sprinkled calf with unsprinkled silhouettes of leaves and flower heads; single gilt fillet forming a border, gilt-tooled board edges. Sewn on recessed cords, gilt-tooled spine. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt: "Thornton's sporting tour in France". Marbled endpapers. Text-block edges dyed red.
Makers and roles
Thomas Thornton (1757-1823), author