edited leonard corning (1 Ergebnisse)

Scarce first edition. Elephant folio.46cm x 35cm x 4.8cm. pp.iv/pp.148/[4pp.]/ + 68 un-numbered leaves of plates, each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letter-press. Publishers' original red cloth binding with elaborate gilt decoration. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with similar gilt decoration. Top & tail carefully strengthened. All page edges bright gilt. White watered silk endpapers (lightly soiled). Armorial bookplate to the verso of the front board: "Leopold de Rothschild". Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. ** Provenance: "From the library of Exbury House. Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) bought the Exbury estate in 1919 with the proceeds from the sale of his uncle Alfred's house at Halton which he had inherited. It was Lionel's gardening passion which led him to choose the Exbury estate with its 2600 acres. Lionel remodelled Exbury House with neo-Georgian designs by William Jenkins, and he created an idyllic family home bounded by the New Forest, The Solent and the Beaulieu river for his wife, Marie-Louise Beer (a great-great-niece of the composer Meyerbeer) and his young family, Rosemary, Edmund, Naomi, and Leopold." - See Wikipedia *** "Leopold de Rothschild CVO (22 November 1845 29 May 1917) was a British banker, thoroughbred race horse breeder, and a member of the prominent Rothschild family." See Wikipedia.