Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Dixon, Henry Hall, 1822-1870
Title:
Silk and scarlet / by the Druid.
Published / Created:
London : Rogerson & Tuxford, 246, Strand, 1859.
Physical Description:
[2], iv, [4], 398, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Sporting 673
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF301 .D63 1859
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN 1975 393: Advertising matter: [8] pages at end.

The Druid is a pseudonym of Henry Hall Dixon.

Title page is engraved, with a portrait of James Robinson.

Engravings by J.B. Hunt; after Henry Hall and after a photograph by Fisher of Grantham.

With a frontispiece portrait of Dick Christian.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in red half calf, and marbled boards. Armorial bookplate: Reginald Bernhard Loder.

BAC: British Art Center copy: Sporting 673. Dark red cloth; blind stamped on front and back covers, gold lettering on spine. No title-page, plates, advertisements. Spine height: 7 inches.
Subject Terms:
Fox hunting -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Foxhounds -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Horse racing -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Horsemanship -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Loder, Reginald Bernhard -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Engravings -- 1859. | Wood engravings -- 1859.
Contributors:
Hunt, J. B., active 1850–1880, engraver. | Hall, Henry Bryan, active 1850–1900, illustrator. | Rogerson & Tuxford.