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Hudson, Palliser.
The History of Wolfelee.
Publisher: Cassell and Company Ltd, London;
Date of Publication: 1921
Stock Code: 12519
First Edition. Small octavo, pp. [8], 54. With two monochrome photographic plates including frontispiece portrait of author. Bound in purple calf over thin boards, gilt fillet and titles to upper board, top edge gilt. Sunned to spine, lightly rubbed to board edges and corners, some offsetting to end-papers. Contents tight, clean, and free from annotations and ownership marks. A very good copy. Ralph Palliser Milbanke Hudson (1891-1920). A posthumously published, engrossing history of Hudson’s family home, the Medieval Wolfelee House, near Hawick on the Scottish Borders. The house was immortalised by Sir Walter Scott as “Wolfs Crag Castle” and inspired John Ruskin to commend it with having “the most beautiful views in the United Kingdom”. Gift inscribed “To Miss Mary [indecipherable], in memoriam from, R. Millbanke Hudson” presumably by the author’s father, to the front-free end-paper. Rare. £45.00