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
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3248301.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2, plates : ill. ; 4to. Bookseller's pencil codes on half-title: "C/Sn/c". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'Myres & Co., 59A High Holborn, London, W.C. Rare books - Fine prints.'. Binding: Nineteenth-century half maroon calf, purple cloth over boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'A sporting tour through France etc.' and 'Thornton. / Vol. II.'; gilt stamped flower in remaining spine compartments; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Thomas Thornton (1757-1823), author