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.B8255 1939
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Brock, D. W. E.
(David William Errington),
1907-
The fox-hunter's week-end book /
David Brock, M.F.H. ... ; with decorations by Helen MacGregor.
London :
Seeley Service,
[1939?]
373 p. :
ill. ;
19 cm.
The Week-end library
Helen MacGregor's original pen-and-ink illustrations for the head- and tail-pieces of this work are now in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original tan half cloth and yellow cloth. Accompanied by Helen MacGregor's original pen-and-ink illustrations. The drawings are cataloged separately as: MacGregor, Helen. Drawings for The fox-hunter's week-end book, 1939.
BAC: British Art Center copy also accompanied by seven manuscript letters concerning the present work: [1] 1939 March 15, TLS, from David Brock to Stanley Service, discussing possible literary excerpts to be included in the work -- [2] 1939 March 30, ALS, from MacGregor to an unidentified recipient, reading: "Returned with thanks. May I have the remaining chapters please." -- [3] 1939 April 24, ALS, from David Brock to Stanley Service, in which the author discusses financial terms and notes "I am glad the illustrations are so good. Who is she? I have never heard." -- [4] 1939 April 25, TL, from Service (?) to Brock, expressing displeasure with the terms proposed by Brock --[5] 1939 May 18, ALS from Siegfired Sassoon to Brock, in which Sassoon discusses C.B. Wylde and Sassoon's consent to allow Brock to quote from the poem "Together 1917" -- [6] 1939 October 13, TLS, from J. Jefferson Jones to F. Stanley Service, about the number of copies of The fox-hunter's week-end book that Lippincott would be willing to publish -- [7] 1939 October 25, TL, from Service (?) to Jones, discussing the war and the favorable merits of Brock's work compared to Geoffrey Brooke's Foxhunter's England.
Fox hunting.
Chron.
1939.
Seeley Service
Publisher.
MacGregor, Helen.
Sassoon, Siegfried,
1886-1967.
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