Thornton thomas colonel (4 Ergebnisse)
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Verlag: James Cundee at Albion Press for Longman, Hurst, Reese, and Orme; and C. Chapple, London, 1806
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. First. A RARE SURVIVAL IN BOARDS. Two volumes. London: James Cundee at Albion Press for Longman, Hurst, Reese, and Orme; and C. Chapple; 1806. "First and only edition." Quarto (12 1/8" x 9 ½", 307mm x 242mm). [Full collation available.] With 57 plates in toto: an etched portrait frontispiece, 2 etched t…itle-pages and 54 pictorial plates, of which 1 is woodcut, 7 engraved and 46 aquatint, of which 11 are folding (as well as several aquatint and woodcut culs-de-lampe). Bound in the publisher's drab boards backed in blue tape. With octagonal paper labels to the front of each volume. On the spines, author, title and number in ink manuscript. All edges of the text-block untrimmed. Worn, with chips and losses along the spine. Fore-corners bumped, with chipping. The front hinge of vol. II starting. A little soiling generally, with rubbing and wear to the paper-labels. Foxing to the portrait and engraved titles, and occasionally at the plates, but altogether quite clean with excellent margins (including unopened gatherings at I.b1-2 and II.P3-4). Vol. II quire S and its three plates starting, and quire 2L (pp. 257-260) laid in. A wholly unsophisticated set. The relationship between France and Britain, traditional foes, realigned over the course of the XVIIIc, first from the losses of the large parts of their American empires (the French in the Seven Years' War ending 1763, the British from 1776), and then from the French Revolution. These forged a connection between the aristocrats (or former aristocrats, in the case of France) of the two nations, such that the Napoleonic Wars were set against an oddly chummy relationship between belligerents. Colonel Thomas Thornton (1751/2-1823) inherited his father's Yorkshire estates when still a teenager, and became an accomplished, indeed renowned sportsman (a blurry term, but referring to hunting and shooting, as well as to gentlemen's other outdoor pursuits). From George III's second son Prince Frederick, ("The Grand Old") Duke of York, Thornton bought the estate of Allerton Park in 1789 and renamed it Thornville Royal. Court-martialed after a dispute with his regiment's officers, he resigned his colonelcy and set off for the Continent during the Peace of Amiens (March 1802-May 1803), which marks the break between the Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Thornton was the archetypal Regency sporting gentleman; he reintroduced falconry into the modern era, and was a crack shot -- indeed, he presented a pair of Durs Egg pistols to Napoleon, and commissioned volley guns, including a 14-barrel rifle. On this basis he toured France (mostly in the north) and corresponded with the Earl of Darlington (William Henry Vane, later first Duke of Cleveland) about his varied experiences, from hunts and shoots on estates including the Châteaux of Versailles and Chantilly, to experiences in French restaurants, including wine lists and evaluations of the handsome women serving at Parisian coffee-houses. The epistolary format must surely have been a mere conceit, as Thornton had with him the British artist Joshua Bryant as well as the French Monsieur Lucas (among others), whose drawings of sporting scenes, buildings, landscapes, events, fashions and types found throughout France have been translated to engravings and, more notably, into aquatints. It was asserted as early as Schwerdt's Hunting, Hawking, Shooting (1928-1937) that this 1806 imprint was the "first and only edition" of the work. The British Library, however, held a set -- destroyed in the Blitz -- with 1805 title-pages, although the dedication is dated 31 March 1806. Abbey opines that some sets were issued before the Earl of Darlington agreed to the dedication, but that the presswork is uniform; the whole work is on wove paper, and the plates do not appear to be watermarked, but some of the letterpress is watermarked 1804. Abbey, Travel I.84; Schwerdt II.259-261; Tooley, English Books 488.
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Verlag: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806, 1806
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In den WarenkorbFirst Edition. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, in two volumes. Quartos (30 x 24cm), pp.lxvi; 168; [6], pp.xii; 260; [12]. With numerous in-text engravings and 51 engraved plates across the two volumes, some of them fold-out. Both with frontispieces and vignette title pages, frontispiece of volume II is fold-out. Brown half calf, borders… gilt-ruled. Newly re-backed spines gilt-lettered in six compartments with further gilt embellishment. Marbled paper over boards. All edges marbled. Both volumes still mostly bright and clean, some infrequent marking/spotting/offsetting. A few pencil annotations to both. Armorial bookplate to both pastedowns. Rubbing to paper boards. Wear to extremities. Very good.
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Verlag: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, London, 1806
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Anbieter: Studio Bibliografico Benacense, riva del garda, TN, ItalienStudio Bibliografico Benacense
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In den Warenkorbhardcover. Zustand: Buono (Good). Due volumi legati in uno di cm. 28, pp. lxvi, 168 (8); xii, 260 (12). Ritratto dell'autore, primo frontespizio illustrato a ciascuna delle due parti + 54 belle tavole all'acquatinta di cui alcune ripiegate (tutte protette da velina). Solida ed elegante legatura d'amatore novecentesca in piena ma…rocchino verde scuro, dorso a nervi con titoli in oro. Piatti inquadrati da duplice filetto decorativo, dentelles interne, sguardie marmorizzate e tagli dorati. Ex libris nobiliare ed un paio di etichette di librerie antiquarie. Entro custodia rigida marmorizzata. Qualche arrossatura sparsa, perlopiù marginale, peraltro complessivamente esemplare marginoso e ben conservato. Opera munita di un affascinante apparato iconografico riguardante la descrizione di luoghi, modi e costumi di caccia del popolo francese. Belle vedute di ricerve e parchi di caccia. Cfr. Souhart (460-461). Book.
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Verlag: London; Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806., 1806
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In den WarenkorbHard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, separately paginated. Quarto, pp lxvi, 168, [6] Index & xii, 260, [8] Index & Directions to Binder, [4] catalogue. Vignettes to title pages; 24 plates, of which 5 folding, to Vol I and 30 plates including double-page musical plate, of which 6 folding, to Vol II, plus vignettes and tail pie…ces in text. Half scarlet morocco over matching paper-covered boards; gilt titles and ruling to spine. Marbled endpapers. Spines lightly sunned and creased; boards surface scuffed and bumped to edges with wear. A little scattered foxing and some offsetting; light staining to edge of frontis & title page Vol II. Small loss to plate facing p66 Vol I. Ownership inscription with address of Anthony Freeman to verso ffep Vol I in pencil. A Good set. Classic account of an English gentleman's sporting journeys through France during breaks in the Napoleonic wars. Thomas Thornton (1751/21823) was a renowned Yorkshire sportsman, achieving fame with his several packs of hounds, with which he provided free hunting of foxes, stags, and hares for the Yorkshire gentry. From 1772 to 1781 he managed the Falconers' Club near Cambridge. Thornton made two expeditions to the Scottish highlands about 1786, which were described as one journey in his book A sporting tour through the northern parts of England and great parts of the highlands of Scotland (1804). His correspondence to the Earl of Darlington during a tour of France during which he met Napoleon was the foundation for A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France (1806). He describes at length his passion for the French countryside, rural dress, food & drink, and manners etc, and such diverse rural sports as wolf-hunting, falconry and boar-hunting. (ODNB).
