A flying visit to the Middle East / by Sir Samuel Hoare ...
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880-1959).
Category
Books
Date
1925
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3223664
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 88 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo (19 cm). Provenance: authorial ink inscription to front flyleaf: 'From a bad author to / a good friend. / June 1928'; typewritten letter loosely inserted, headed Air Ministry, Whitehall: 'Dear Courtauld, [i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)] / In answer to your invitation I / send you two little books that I have / written of my flights ...' signed in pencil: 'Samuel Hoare'; black ink stamp on half-title: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: twentieth-century hand-coloured multicoloured paper backed boards, printed paper labels.
Makers and roles
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood (1880-1959).