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Huntingdonshire.

Hinchingbrooke.

London: Privately Printed [by Hatchards], 1910.,

118,76 €

Forest Books William Laywood

(Grantham, Royaume-Uni)

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Auteur
Huntingdonshire.
Éditeurs
London: Privately Printed [by Hatchards], 1910.
Thème
COUNTRY HOUSE HUNTINGDONSHIRE HUNTINGDON HINCHINGBROOKE

Description

First edition, 4to (253 x 194 mm), [4], 50, [2]pp., orig. publishers red buckram, bevelled boards with the Earl of Sandwichís gilt armorial stamp on upper cover, spine faded untrimmed, t.e.g. Produced at the instigation of the 8th Earl of Sanwich who then occupied the house. Lists of the pictures and contents that survived a disastrous fire in the mid 1830s, which is described. Further pictures were lost in recent times when some of them, mainly full lenghts, were in store and burnt in transit while being returned to Mapperton Manor, present home of the family. Provenance: Presentation inscription from Earl of Sandwich to J. Fairhurst, Huntingdon, 1916; Sir Howard Colvinís copy; the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers. Holmes, p.134;
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