LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970). My Rod My Comfort, London, The Dropmore Press, 1949, 4to, plates by J. Gaastra, vellum-backed buckram. FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 63 OF 550 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Anthony Eden.

LOCKHART, Robert Hamilton Bruce (1887-1970).  My Rod My Comfort. London: The Dropmore Press, 1949. 4to (280 x 200mm). Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 4 plates by J. Gaastra. Original vellum-backed green pictorial buckram gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, dust-jacket, original publisher's cardboard slipcase with statement of limitation repeated on the side (slipcase worn). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted); the following printed passage on p.67 of Lockhart's text has been marked in red pencil [?by Anthony Eden]: "I regret my weakness of mind, for, if my varied experiences of life have taught me anything, it is that the country, and not the city, is the sanctuary of civilization." FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 63 OF 550 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the limitation leaf, "Anthony [Eden] from Bruce, R. H. Bruce Lockhart, 8 January, 1950."