Thoughts on hunting : in a series of familiar letters / by Peter Beckford ; with illustrations by G. Denholm Armour and introduction by E.D. Cuming.
Peter Beckford (1740 - 1811)
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3223927
Summary
Bibliographic description
[Ed. de luxe]. xxiii, 155 p., [25] leaves of mounted plates : col. ill., plan ;. 30 cm. Former shelfmark: HF.3.12. Number 186, signed: 'G. Denholm Armour'. Provenance: ink inscription: 'To Courtauld / in remembrance of many happy days / from Sam / Christmas 1911' [i.e. Lord Courtauld-Thomson (1865-1954)]; armorial bookplate Courtauld-Thomson with motto: Fortiter aut suaviter; black ink stamp on flyleaf: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: untrimmed in twentieth-century full brown stippled morocco, lettered and tooled gilt; spine eroded with lower portion lost.
Makers and roles
Peter Beckford (1740 - 1811) George Denholm Armour (North Lanarkshire 1864 - 1949) Edward William Dirom Cuming (1862-1941)