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[TUSMORE ESTATE]. Tusmore. The Particulars & Conditions of Sale of the most important and desirable freehold estates, comprising the whole of the parishes of tusmore and hardwick...Which will be Sold by Auction by messrs. jonas & thos. paxton at the auction mart, london, On Wednesday, the 15th of July, 1857, at 12 0'clock...

Bicester. E. Smith and Son, [1857].
Folio. 27pp, [1]. With four large engraved plates (of six), linen-backed, folding plates. Interleaved throughout, with 82 photographs of Tusmore and environs and related articles pasted to blanks/loosely inserted. Later gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled paper boards, T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, closed tears to title page and initial leaf of text, scattered spotting.
The second located copy, profusely extra-illustrated, of a mid-nineteenth-century catalogue for the sale by auction of the Oxfordshire estate of Tusmore Park and environs.

Tusmore House, was erected in 1770 after designs by renowned Scottish architect Robert Mylne (1733-1811). The owner, William Fermor, died in 1837 without issue and the estate was duly at auction sold to Henry Howard, second Earl of Effingham (1806-1889).

The grounds of the estate contained an ornamental temple dedicated to the late Alexander Pope (1688-1744). The poet had been a close friend of the Fermor family. The dissolution of the relationship of Robert Petre (1689-1713) and famed beauty Arabella Fermor (1696- 1737) inspired Pope's immensely popular mock-heroic narrative poem The Rape of the Lock (1712).

OCLC and COPAC together locate a single copy held at Oxford.
£ 950.00 Antiquates Ref: 31632