Lake District Grandfather Clocks

Description

Machell, Hugh W. Some Records of The Annual Grasmere Sports.

With a forward by Rev HD Rawnsley 4to
Deluxe edition numbered 83 of 250 copies printed. Profusely illustrated from photographs.
Half Morocco gilt spine title and front cover title with Grasmere and Westmorland coat of arms.

83 pages slight scuffing of hinge morocco. VG.
Top edge gilt Published by Charles Thurnham & sons. Carlisle. 1911
size 24cmm wide x 30cm high
Inscription of a previous owner E.R. Braithwaite
Records of the sports from 1852 to 1910.

together with

Grasmere Sports Results 1852 -1952. Coronation Sports 1953. vg
Published by The Grasmere Sports Committee Ltd.
29 pages Fawn cloth green title to cover, small 19cm x 12.5cm. Excellent condition.
Inscription on inside front cover- 'Sports Day R Hext 20th August 1953 -. The Hext family lived at Holywath House in Coniston from 1830 until 2010 when the house and contents where sold at Tennants Auctioneers of Leyburn handling the contents in a single estate sale of over 750 lots..