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Derbyshire. Rayner (Samuel), The History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall: Illustrated by Thirty-two Highly Finished Drawings; with an Account of the Hall in its Present State, association copy, first edition, large paper subscriber's copy with proof illustrations, Derby: Published by Robert Moseley, London: Weale, Architectural Library, et al, 1836, [xii], 53, [1]pp, illustrated with 32 proof state named-view lithographs, each printed on India paper and subsequently press-rolled onto leaves, mostly of medieval architecture, the prelims somewhat foxed, the plates - mostly their leaves - more so, the leaf of plate 24 creased, finely bound in contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over moiré silk boards, gilt-lettered spine and upper-cover, gently rubbed, the upper-cover with slight sunned portion, all edges gilt and gauffered, folio (41.5 x 33cm)
Provenance: 1) George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (1803-1866), of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, landowner and sometime MP, bibliophile and Dante scholar; his subscriber's copy and later presented by him to; 2) Sir James Lacaita, KCMG (1813-1895), Anglo-Italian politician, man-of-letters and a fellow authority on Dante, with whom Vernon co-operated in his own edition of the Inferno (London, 1858-65); ffep with contemporary manuscript presentation inscription: Sir James Lacaita from his sincere friend Vernon, Sudbury Hall, Derby, 13. Nov:r 1861; thence by descent to his son: 3) Charles Lacaita (1853-1933), of Selham, Sussex, botanist and Liberal MP; his and his wife Mary's engraved bookplate to pastedown.
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