Colonel Thornton (22 results)

hardcover. 1896 New Edition. xix, 332pp, 20 illusts some in colour, original half vellum, marbled boards, t.e.g., light foreedge foxing, some general soiling and darkening to vellum, VG. . Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Two volume set, in fairly rough shape. Former owners library sticker on the inside covers, some penciled-in notes again on the covers, and lastly a stamp from a book seller on one of the front inside covers. Also the covers themselves have come loose completely, both books front and back, although the first book back cover still has a few pages attached to it. The pages are spotted in places, but appear fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London: Vernor and Hood, 1804. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. Bound in contemporary half-calf, with wear and rubbing, especially to corners where the leather has worn through to the boards. Head and tail of spine worn down to headbands, leather splitting along joints, but no splitting to inner hinges and boards firmly attached. Marbled paper to boards has some pieces missing. [xxviii], 312 pages. With 16 engraved plates, as called for. Internally there is the usual age-toning to paper, contents are clean with the occasional light foxing, textblock is firm with no loose pages. There is an old inkstain (2cm in width) on pages 157-160 affecting the text and a small hole through one leaf (pp.159-160). See photos for condition, etc.

, 7 uniform volumes, each illustrated with numerous coloured and black & white plates, including lithographs and engravings, complete with 122 illustrations in total New Edition , small piece of leather chipped at front cover of one volume, cloth just slightly faded at upper edge of a few covers, all nice tight bindings, gilt bright at spines, small part missing at edge of one title label, previous owner's bookplates at front pastedown of each volume, all internally clean, with nice bright plates, the books are in very good condition , half red calf with red cloth sides, raised bands, gilt titles and floral designs at spines, top edge gilt Octavo, 26 x 19 cm Hardback ISBN:

Leather. Condition: Good. Mr. Garrard (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this famous sportsman's account of fishing, hunting and shooting in the highlands of Scotland, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this illustrated study of sports in the Scottish highlands and North of England, from English sportsman Colonel Thomas Thornton, best known for hunting and other outdoor sports.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and fifteen further engraved plates, the majority retaining their original tissue guards. With the majority of plates being the work of Mr. Garrard. Collated, complete.A delightful account of a famous sportsman's time shooting, fishing and hawking in the Scottish highlands, with discussions of seal and deer hunting and salmon fishing, and with amusing discussions of local customs.In 1805, Sir Walter Scott praised the work in the Edinburgh Review. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Bumping and rubbing to board perimeters, with rubbing to paper. A touch of rubbing to rear joint, with losses of leather to front joint. Front joint strained, with board detached to tail, and tenderly held to head. Rear hinge starting, with board holding firm. Significant marks to rear pastedown and rear free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting to title page. Pages generally bright, with light spotting and discolouration to pages surrounding plates, and more significant spotting to plates. Good. book.

Condition: Very Good. 1804. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Embellished with 16 engravings, By Messrs, Medland, Pouncy, Landseer, Peltro etc. !st EDITION. 311pp. 4to. 1/2 calf over marbled boards, light tanning with text remaining clear & crisp overall. Scarce. . . Former Library book. .

Condition: Very Good. 1804. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Embellished with 16 engravings, By Messrs, Medland, Pouncy, Landseer, Peltro etc. !st EDITION. 311pp. 4to. 1/2 calf over marbled boards, light tanning with text remaining clear & crisp overall. Scarce. . . Former Library book. . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

4to [30x24cm]. 2 volumes bound in 1. contemporary half morocco leather binding, rubbed at the spine and corners, and with glue repairs to joints, which are tender. internally clean, apart from a little marginal marking and browning, and some off-set from the plates. all plates present as called for, plus an additional view of the plan of the entrance to Thornville-Royal [heavy book that may require extra shipping costs for some overseas destinations. Please see our storefront page for shipping information].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Landseer et al. (illustrator). 1st Edition. '. and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland. '.[24] + 312 pp + [4] + plates as called for. Bookplate of previous owner on paste down fep. Scattered foxing, particularly to prelims. Later calf spine on contemporary marbled boards and calf corners. Very good hardback.

Leather cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed. Scattered browning and age toning. Text block firm. 300mm x 230mm (12" x 9"). lxvi, 168pp, + index; xii, 260pp, + index, erata, + ads. Vignettes, 52 plates, including 2 engraved sheets of music. Heavy set - extra shipping needed for overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: 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 title-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.

First 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.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Mr Bryant (illustrator). First edition. A complete two volume set of A Sporting Tour, with illustrations throughout and in the first edition. A first edition, complete two volume set of A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the Year 1802, by Colonel Thornton.These volumes included a description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting and other field amusements of France with general observations on the arts, sciences, agriculture and commerce and manners of the French people. from a series of letters to the Right Hon The Earl of Darlington.Colonel Thornton was an English sportsman known for his assiduity in hunting and other outdoor pursuits.With twenty five plates, five which are folding to volume one and twenty six plates to volume two. The first volume has a frontispiece and an engraved title page.Collated, complete. Re-bound in half morocco with cloth covered boards. Externally, very smart with a few marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with generally bright pages with scattered spots throughout. Very Good. book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Mr. Bryant, and other Eminent Artists (illustrator). First edition. A handsomely-bound first edition detailing a sporting tour of France at the turn of the 19th century, illustrated with folding plates. Two volumes bound together as one. Written by Thomas Thornton (c1751-1823), an English sportsman. Thornton was known for his meticulousness as a huntsman and falconer. he was an advocate of hunting using volley guns. He also published 'A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland', which was noticed by Walter Scott in the Edinburgh Review of 1805.Thornton had visited France ahead of the French Revolution, and later revisited it during the Peace of Amiens in 1802. He was introduced to Napoleon Bonaparte, and presented him with a pair of Durs Egg pistols. He had aimed to purchase a French estate, but the Napoleonic Wars hindered his plans.Two volumes bound together as one.The first edition of this work.With a frontispiece portrait an illustrated half title page and twenty-three plates to volume I, including six folding plates, and a folding frontispiece, illustrated half title page and thirty including six folding plates to volume II. Collated, complete.A particularly smart example of this exciting work. In a recent half crushed morocco binding. Externally very smart; spine is a touch faded as to be expected with leather of this colour. There is a little general wear to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, bar occasional spots more noticeable to the plates. Very Good Indeed. book.

hardcover. Condition: 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 marocchino 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. '.In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon The Earl of Darlington '. Vol 1. lxvi + 168 pp + [6] + all plates and vignettes as called for. Vol 2.xii + 260 pp + [6] + all plates and vignettes as called for. Bookplate of previous owner on paste down fep of Vol 1. Light foxing to prelims and light browning to a few page edges of text. Joints slightly rubbed but firm. Crisp and bright text and plates. Near fine hardbacks in contemporary full calf with raised bands and contrasting title/ volume labels.

Hard 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 pieces 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).

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, with 1804 to title page & no later printing dates. Embellished with 16 engravings, by Messrs. Medland, Pouncy, Landseer, Peltro, etc., from paintings made on purpose, by Mr. Garrard. Contains all 16 full-page plates (copper engravings), as issued, including frontispiece. Two of the plates have been misplaced at the wrong page (p.29 plate at p.256, p.105 plate at p.161). "Colonel Thomas Thornton (1757-1823), of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire was a zealous sportsman, and revived falconry. In 1786 he undertook a sporting tour in the Scottish highlands. He chartered the sloop Falcon, and partly by sea and partly by land proceeded through a great part of the northern and western highlands, dividing his time between hunting, shooting, angling, and hawking. In 1804 he published 'A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland'. Thornton was perhaps the most flamboyant sportsman and falconer of Britain's 18th century. The stories of his sporting exploits are legend and chronicled in his books of his sojourns to Scotland, England and France." With old dealer's typed description slip laid in. Full contents as follows: endpaper, blank, frontispiece, title page, advertisement (2pp), table of contents (unpaginated 18pp), errata, main text (p.1-312), index (4pp), list of plates, blank, endpaper. Bound in contemporary full calf leather, gilt-ruled boards & gilt design to board edges, gilt lettering to spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. NOTE: Front board detached (but present), slight handling wear, mild offsetting from plates, otherwise a VG nice clean tight solid leatherbound copy of a scarce title. 21pp (advertisement & table of contents) + 312pp + 5pp (index & list of plates). Heavy volume (over 1.5kg), extra shipping may be required. RARE.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. TWO VOLUMES in a FINE BINDING. Please NOTE: With 6 text pages & 2 plates LACKING in volume 2, see below for details. Full title as follows: "A Sporting Tour Through Various Parts of France, in the Year 1802: Including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, & Other Field-Amusements, as Practised in That Country. With General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, & Commerce: Strictures on the Customs & Manners of the French People; With a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France & England. In a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To Which is Prefixed, an Account of French Wolf-Hunting, in Two Volumes". FIRST EDITION. "Illustrated with upwards of eighty correct & picturesque delineations from original drawings from nature, by Mr. Bryant, & other eminent artists." Contains engraved portrait frontispiece in Vol. 1, & two engraved title pages with vignettes. With a total of 52 (of 54) aquatint/engraved plates (10 folding, with 5 folding in each volume; vol. 1 frontispiece; & with 2pp of musical manuscript), & several small vignette engravings in the text. Rear of volume 2 contains binding list, & front section of volume 1 contains full description of plates. NOTE: Volume 2 LACKS two preliminary leaves - BOTH the folding frontispiece plate, & half-title page preceding this plate; plus also LACKS 6 internal TEXT PAGES (pages 39-44 inclusive), PLUS the plate which should've been opposite p.43 (roughly torn, stubs & inner portions of all pages remain). Former owner's tiny/neat detailed pencil notes on first blank of volume 1, which read (in part): "Thomas Thornton of Thornville-Royal Yorkshire - revived falconry - well known sportsman made a sporting tour in the highlands of Scotland in 1786 & published an account of it in 1804. Born 1757, died 1823 in Paris. Seems to have been very rich. William Henry Vane, 3rd Earl of Darlington, of Raby Castle Co., Durham, 5th Baron & 2nd Viscount Barnard K.G. Lord Lieut of Durham was born 1766 & died 1842. His first wife was the daughter of the 6th & last Duke of (Betton). Lord Darlington's great grandmother was a daughter of the 1st Duke of Cleveland (son of Charles II by Barbara Villiers) & Lord Darlington was in 1827 created Mayor of Cleveland & in 1823 Duke of Cleveland & Baron Raby. He was a whig & a great patron of the Turf & was Master of the Raby hunt from 1800 to 1838. The Raby hunt composed the area now hunted by the Zettard, the Bedele, & the Bodsworth. Lord Darlington got his Dukedom in return for his support of the Reform Bill. His great wealth came from coal. This Dukedom of Cleveland of the 2nd creation became extinct in 1891 on the death of the 4th Duke. Raby Castle went to his kinsman Lord Barnard & is now owned by the 10th Baron Barnard" (pencil notation continues with details regarding Colonel Thornton, also marginal pencil notations to a few pages). With matching bookplates of former owner (Archie Loyd) affixed to front pastedowns. Archie Kirkman Loyd (1847-1922) was a British barrister & twice Member of Parliament for Abingdon. In 1892 Loyd was appointed a Queen's Counsel. FINE BINDING. Beautifully bound in matching red morocco half-leather over marbled boards, bright gilt lettering & elaborate gilt design in compartments to spines, raised bands, gilt-ruled boards, top edges gilt, fore-edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers. Binding is NEAR FINE. Overall condition of the two volumes is VERY GOOD. Volume 2 lacking 2 plates & 6 text pages (as noted), varied foxing (including to plates, mostly margins), offsetting from plates, some faint marginal staining, bookplates to front pastedowns (as noted), otherwise a nice clean tight solid leatherbound set. lxvi + 168pp + index (6pp); xii + 260pp + index/errata/directions to binder (8pp). Wide margins. No ads. Heavy set of volumes (over 3kg), extra shipping may be required. RARE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Full leather, likely the original binding. Chipped title label on the spine, "Sporting Tour." Binding is in good shape; it was never a fancy binding, so the bumps to the corners do not offend as they would in a fancier edition. 311 pages + index. Some facing and foxing to the pages, but in keeping with age. All 16 plates present, from paintings by Mr. Garrard. The plates offer a bit more to look at than the landscape, since some of them show hunting and fishing scenes (duck shooting in Inchmerin and fishing on Loch Eunick). Ownership name crossed out on the title page. No other marks. Measures 8.5 x 10 inches. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Vellum. Condition: Very Good Indeed. G.E. Lodge (illustrator). A smart new edition of this illustrated account of fishing, hunting and shooting in the highlands of Scotland, by famous sportsman Colonel T. Thornton. A new edition.In half vellum, with marbled boards, and a gilt to top edge.With a coloured frontispiece, and 19 plates, three of which are coloured. ollated, complete.A work by Colonel T. Thornton, an English sportsman, known for his assiduity in hunting and other outdoor pursuits, and in betting.Illustrated by G.E. Lodge, a British illustrator ofbirdsand an authority onfalconry. Collated, complete.A delightful account of a famous sportsman's time shooting, fishing and hawking in the Scottish highlands, with discussions of seal and deer hunting and salmon fishing. In the original half vellum. Externally, very smart. Light shelf wear to extremities. Slight fading and rubbing to spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Full Calf. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to, 29.5 by 23 cm. lxvi, 168, [6], xii, 260, [6 -- including errata page] pp. Volume One has 24 plates, of which 5 are folding. Volume 2 has 30 plates, of which 6 are folding. Also two page plate of music score. Most plates are aquatints, with some being engraved. Plates are beautiful, many evocations of pastoral scenery, in addition to sporting related. Also costume plates depicting people of unsual professions. Also engraved vignette illustrations throughout. Full calf with Greek motived blindstamped band and gilt edge ruling. Minor starting and rubbing of joints. Calf has scuffs and a few tiny abrasions. Gilt rubbed on spine. Still an attractive contemporary binding. Scattered light foxing but mostly clean within. Also included are two bookseller invoices, one from 1846, the other, from 1876, for this book. Bookplate of Thomas Grahame in both volumes. Marbled endpapers.