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A very good Victorian publisher's cloth binding. 8vo. pp.xiv./[2pp./pp.362. Worn blue cloth covers. Top & tail of spine and corners carefully strengthend. Spine with dulled gilt titles: "Art Of Glass Painting - C. Winston." Original red-brown endpapers. Small binder's label to recto of rear board: "Bound By Edmonds & Remnants, London." Prevoius owner's signature to front free-endpaper: "Emily Fane De Salis, March 7, 1866". Toning to endpapers, otherwise clean text and illustrations throughout. Title-page printed in red and black. 15 plates (13 coloured), 23 other illustrations. 13 Hand-coloured lithographs by Philip H. Delamotte printed by Leighton Bros. and Vincent Brooks . Includes: A catalogue of drawings of glass-paintings by the late Charles Winston. VG. * "The drawings were exhibited by the Archaeological Institute, at the rooms of the Arundel Society in Old Bond Street, from March 24th to April 5th, 1865. They are at present temporarily deposited at the South Kensington Museum for public exhibition" -- p. [343]. ** Family history records show: When Emily Harriet Fane Mayne was born on September 14, 1828, in Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, England, her father, John, was 36, and her mother, Sarah, was 28. She married William Andreas Salicas Fane de Salis on February 27, 1859, in Wiltshire, England. She died on July 25, 1896, at the age of 67, and was buried in Wiltshire. *** William Andreas Salius Fane de Salis (27 October 1812 3 August 1896) was a businessman, colonialist, and barrister. De Salis was the third son of Jerome, 4th Count de Salis-Soglio (d. 1836), by his third wife, Henrietta Foster (d. 1856). Peter John Fane, Count de Salis was an elder half-brother. William Foster Stawell was a first cousin, and the poet Lord De Tabley was a nephew. Colonel Bisse-Challoner was a brother-in-law. General Rodolph de Salis was an elder brother and the Rev. Henry Jerome de Salis was his youngest brother and Rodolph, Cecil and Charles were nephews. Born in St. Marylebone, Westminster, brought up in County Louth he was educated at Eton (1824 27); Heidelberg University (1828 29); and Oriel College, Oxford (1830 1834, Classics, 4th class). He was called to the Bar, 30 January 1836; and was at 3 Brick Court, Inner Temple, by 1840. He was appointed a revising barrister for Northamptonshire (1839), Nottingham and East Retford. Professional life: Fane de Salis visited Australia in 1842, 1844 and 1848 to pursue business opportunities in the Australian wool and other industries, then rapidly expanding. His younger brother Leopold Fabius Fane de Salis had migrated there in 1840. William became, with John Thacker, a partner in Thacker & Co, Jardine Matheson s affiliated house in Sydney, but resigned from 1 July 1847. By 1848 he owned with Robert Towns a 345-ton barque, the Statesman. This they sold, March 1854, for $16,500, she having had an accident 'on her passage up to China from Sydney' trading sandalwood, tea pines. On his return to England de Salis joined the Grand Junction Canal Co in 1850 and held the following appointments: Directorship of the Union Bank of Australia; Director of the Australian Agricultural Co (AAco) and its offshoot the Peel River Land and Mineral Co Ltd; Director of The Marine and General Mutual Life Assurance Society; Director and later chairman of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. He was a director between 1851 1895 and was elected chairman in 1878-1881;Deputy-chairman then chairman of the London Chartered Bank of Australia from 1852 to 1874/80. Personal life : In the early 1850s Fane de Salis lived between the Jerusalem Coffee House; Dawley Lodge (near Hillingdon); 1, Upper Belgrave street; 24 Wilton street, and 107 Eaton square. From the late 1850s he lived at Dawley Court, near Hillingdon, and Harlington, Uxbridge, Middlesex and Teffont Manor, Teffont Evias, Wiltshire, home of his wife Emily Harriet (d 24 July 1896), eldest daughter of John Thomas Mayne, whom he married on 12 March 1859. Fane. N° de ref. del artículo 49895
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