Foreign field sports, fisheries, sporting anecdotes, &c. &c. / from drawings by Messrs. Howitt, Atkinson, Clark, Manskirch, &c. With a supplement of New South Wales. Containing one hundred and ten plates.
Thomas Williamson (1758/9 - 1817)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3239679
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 170, [2] p., plates : ill. (col.) ; 4to. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 1924: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso with price "£12". Binding: Nineteenth-century full green morocco; gilt and blind rolled border; gilt-stamped centrepiece on boards: stag in floral oval; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Foreign field sports'; recessed cords; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Thomas Williamson (1758/9 - 1817), author John Heaviside Clark (1770-1863), illustrator William Samuel Howitt (1756 – London 1822), illustrator