An Innkeeper's Diary.

Fothergill (John)

An Innkeeper's Diary.

[Fourth impression].

Description: vignette to title-page by George A. Fothergill, frontispiece and 5 plates (including portraits of the author by Augustus John and Jacob Epstein), this printing with a slip to opening page of Introduction clarifying the current ownership of the Spread Eagle and Fothergill's acquisition of the Royal Ascot Hotel, and a cancel leaf with an addendum to the Introduction (see below), crease to top corner of frontispiece and title-page, pp. xi, 294, 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with small patch of fading at head, lean to spine, top edge blue, tail edge roughtrimmed, a couple of spots to fore-edge, dustjacket with George A. Fothergill's design to front panel, browned, chipped around head and split along upper joint-fold, good

Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1932

Notes: The fourth impression is more correctly the second edition, as the addendum to the Introduction clarifies: 'A friend who wishes to remain nameless has heroically purged the 4th impression of innumerable errors due to my carelessness and ignorance…' etc.Fothergill was the innkeeper at The Spread Eagle in Thame, and this memoir of his first decade there is an engaging and amusing account - he was called 'Oxford's only civilising influence' by Evelyn Waugh, who, along with the other Hypocrites, frequented the place....moreThe fourth impression is more correctly the second edition, as the addendum to the Introduction clarifies: 'A friend who wishes to remain nameless has heroically purged the 4th impression of innumerable errors due to my carelessness and ignorance…' etc.Fothergill was the innkeeper at The Spread Eagle in Thame, and this memoir of his first decade there is an engaging and amusing account - he was called 'Oxford's only civilising influence' by Evelyn Waugh, who, along with the other Hypocrites, frequented the place. HIDE

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Price: £30

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1932

Stock Number: 69958

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