Author: CUNDALL, H. M. (HERBERT MINTON CUNDALL 1848-1940) .
Title: Birket Foster R.W.S. (By H. M. Cundall, I.S.O., F.S.A).
Description: London: Adam And Charles Black, 1906 . 0. Signed by "Myles Birket Foster" ! First Edition. A very good tight binding with an interesting provenance. pp.20/pp.216/[4pp. - Adverts]. Decorated cloth binding, corners bumped. Spine sunned with slight loss to top of spine. Large bookplate to the verso of the front board by "J. G. Withycombe.": "Ex Libris Maude Bentley.". Second bookplate to front endpaper for "Francis Garnham". Small neat signature to top of front endpaper: "Myles Birket Foster". Presumed to be Myles Birket Foster, F.R.A.M. The eldest son of the artist (to which this book is dedicated). Clean throughout with with 73 colour & 20 b&w illustrations, plus many smaller drawings within the text. Coloured plates with titled tissue guards. Small bookseller's label to recto of rear board: "The Time (Book Club) 376-384 Oxford Street London." A good copy with an interesting history. ** "Myles Birket Foster (1851–1922), was an organist who composed cantatas for children's voices and wrote a History of the Philharmonic Society, 1913." - See Wikipedia.

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