Memoirs of a fox-hunting man / by Siegfried Sassoon ; with illustrations by William Nicholson.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Category
Books
Date
Oct 1929
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3249279
Summary
Bibliographic description
Illustrated edition. [4], 295, [1] p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Copy no. 257, signed by the author and the illustrator. Pencil date on rear pastedown: "11/29". Provenance: Pencil inscription on front pastedown: "Fairhaven" [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's yellow paper over boards; stamped in black and red: black and red fox's head on upper board, black title on upper board and in red square on spine, red riding whip and black publisher's name on lower board; gilt top edge; red line drawings on endpapers.
Makers and roles
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), author Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson (Newark-on-Trent 1872 – Berkshire 1949), illustrator