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Digby House and Papers compiled by Noël Digby. Branksome House , Gadley Lane Buxton , Digby House Rutland .
".: 12. S.l. s.d. ( Branksome House , Gadley Lane Buxton), around 1925, large in-4°, 36 x 28 cm, private edition consisting of 70 nn pp, typescript text on heavy paper, text on recto side only, with tipped on 15 original photographs, two designs of the exterior of Branksome House taken from '' The Builder '' (December 2 , 1899), bound in full dark blue morocco, all edges gilt, front cover nicely decorated in gilt with the title (Digby House and Papers) and a large central coat of arms '' Dea Non Fortuna '', ( 70 x 65 mm), four different large floral ornaments at the corners, raised gilt spine, binding signed J. & E. Bumpus. Finely preserved, only some minor offsetting at the margins of the first flyleaf. Luxuriously bound private edition of the history and houses of the Digby Family, certainly published in only very few numbers, compiled by Noël Digby, grandson of Sir admiral Henry Digby. Among his ancestors is Kenelm Digby, a friend of Sir Anthony Van Dyck's. The genealogical data comprise ca. 15 pp. The rest of the book is devoted to the houses; Branksome House near Buxton and Digby House in Rutland."
