RUTTER, JOHN - ‘DELINEATIONS OF THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET’
RUTTER, JOHN - ‘DELINEATIONS OF THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET’
printed and published by the author, Shaftesbury and by Longman et al, London, 1829, three quarter dark brown leather bound with grained boards, the gilt tooled spine with red leather half title, with C.H. Payne and Perran Wood bookplates, the front flyleaf with pencil inscription 'ex Rees-Mogg - Sotheby's Bath, '98'
Provenance:
The collection of Perran Wood, thence by family descent.
Perran Wood was born in Cape Town in 1945. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1970s, where he became a glass expert at Sotheby’s.
In retirement, Perran devoted himself to his enduring love of books, building an extensive collection and earning widespread respect for his deep knowledge of the subject. His books were a source of lifelong curiosity and pleasure, each valued for what they held within their pages.
RUTTER, JOHN - ‘DELINEATIONS OF THE NORTH WESTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET’
printed and published by the author, Shaftesbury and by Longman et al, London, 1829, three quarter dark brown leather bound with grained boards, the gilt tooled spine with red leather half title, with C.H. Payne and Perran Wood bookplates, the front flyleaf with pencil inscription 'ex Rees-Mogg - Sotheby's Bath, '98'
Provenance:
The collection of Perran Wood, thence by family descent.
Perran Wood was born in Cape Town in 1945. He moved to the United Kingdom in the 1970s, where he became a glass expert at Sotheby’s.
In retirement, Perran devoted himself to his enduring love of books, building an extensive collection and earning widespread respect for his deep knowledge of the subject. His books were a source of lifelong curiosity and pleasure, each valued for what they held within their pages.
