A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802: . including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting and other field amusements, as practised in that country ... in a series of letters to the Right Hon. the Earl of Darlington. To which is prefixed, an account of French wolf-hunting. By Colonel Thornton, ... Illustrated ... In two volumes. ...
Thomas Thornton (1757-1823)
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3207642.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2, plates . ill.., port. . 4to.. 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 leather binding; un-sprinkled silhouettes of leaves and ferns; gilt tooled border; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered.
Makers and roles
Thomas Thornton (1757-1823)