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Identification note: Also loose is an extract from a bookseller's catalogue advertising this copy (pasted on the back of commercial stationery possibly dating from between the two World Wars) for £37.10s amended to £35. Also loose are are two printed Hungerford pedigrees by Sir Thomas Phillipps given to Jackson by Phillipps, and a number of well executed watercolours (said in the Sotherby catalogue to be by J Buckler, but the later catalogue ascribes them to Thomas Trotter) including a portrait of Sir Walter Hungerford, fourteen views of the family tombs at Farleigh Castle and elsewhere, an external vieww of Farleigh Castle chapel and three interior views. Also numerous engravings (mostly bound in, but some pasted and a few loosely inserted) of Farleigh Castle, the Hungerford Chapel at Salisbury Cathedral, and other places. This copy also contains many minor corrections, most prolific for recorded inscriptions, in ink (in Jackson's hand) and pencil.

Identification note: a fine folio copy in green Morocco binding; with the pages as printed by Rutter at centre page; additional material interspersed as well as marginal notes in ink and pencil in two different hands, bookplate of Lord Crewe. Written on a flyleaf at front in Jackson's hand: "This volume was formed by John Morice Esq, a literary gentleman: and must have cost him (so John Britton assured me) £50, or £60. When in 1844 I was still living at Farley Rectory, the sale of Mr Morice's library was announced I requested Mr Arthur Houlton (then in the War Office) to send domeone to bid for me. I had not seen the vcolume, I named at a guess five or six pounds. He accordingly sent an agent who was outbidden bt Thorpe the Bookseller. A Houlton then wrote to me [the in question letters have been pasted in] in answer to No 1. I desired him to go to Mr Thorpe, and negotiate with him, which he did, and then sent Letter No 2. Thorpe had given £10. 15. 0 and sold it to me for £14." Following Jackson's death in 1891 this copy appeared as Lot 644 in Hodgson's May 1895 sale catalogue. The book bears not the small amorial Crewe Hall bookplate appearing in some of the octavo copies of Hungerfordiana, but a larger armorial plate. This is Robert Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), created Earl of Crewe in 1895, and first and last Marquess of Crewe in 1911. He succeeded to the Crewe estates on the death of his uncle, the 3rd and and last Baron Crewe, in 1893. (The 2nd Baron Crewe (c.1772-1835), father of the 3rd Baron, had in 1807 married into the Hungerford family - Henriette Maria Anne, daughter of George Walker-Hungerford of Calne, Wilts, by Henrietta Maria, daughter of Hohn Hungerford Keate - himself the son of John Keate, by Frances, daughter of Sir George Hungerford of Cadenham, Wilts (c.1637-1712.] This copy may therefore have been acquired at or shortly after the 1895 sale. A note in the Museum copy of the Jackson sale catalogue (DZSWS:SC.74) againts Lot 644 states "Now the property of Col Floyd, Great Chalfield, 26 April 1959." This was Lt-Col C M Floyd (1905-71), sometime member of the Society's Committee. It appears to have been acquired by the Library shortly afterwards, along with much else of Jackson's Hungefrord collection: see WANHM Vol 57, pages 263-4. Loose at the front of this book is a handwritten note by Jackson regarding a similar copy which had been sold at Sotherby's 1883 sale of the Stourhead Library for £105. The following year Jackson discovered that the furchaser was (the 3rd) Lord Crewe, who also bought all the copies of Hungerfordiana at the same sale.

Summary: Hungerfordiana: or Memoirs of the Family of Hungerford collected by Sir Richard Colt Hoare / Hoare, Richard Colt / J. Rutter / 1823/ copy printed on oversize (folio) paper for Henry Wansey, later passing into the possession of Can J E Jackson, and bearing marginal notes and corrections by him; contains a number of inserted illustrations by Thomas Trotter and others.