An Innkeeper's Diary - John Fothergill (Signed)
This is the famous (opinionated, rude, dated and often amusing) diary of John Fothergill, friend of Oscar Wilde and landlord of the Spread Eagle Hotel in Thame. An art gallerist turned hotelier/publican/restaurateur, Fothergill did such a good job that The Spread Eagle was mentioned by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited and he was seperately described by Waugh as ‘Oxford’s only civilising influence.’ Tucked inside the book is a small catalogue of John’s wholesale wine offering at The Spread Eagle, which provides a pleasing connection to reality. There’s also a mad fold out facsimilie of a wall in the hotel where people have marked how tall they are and put their names.
Signed by the author: ‘John Fothergill - with best wishes & apologies for the depressing bits’
Publisher/Published: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Signed third printing of the first edition. Hardback, with dustjacket.
Condition: RNTBCHOII. Dust Jacket been reserved, but is a bit fragmented. Someone called Peter Herbert has put his ex libris in the front at some point too, and I have not tried to remove it.
This is the famous (opinionated, rude, dated and often amusing) diary of John Fothergill, friend of Oscar Wilde and landlord of the Spread Eagle Hotel in Thame. An art gallerist turned hotelier/publican/restaurateur, Fothergill did such a good job that The Spread Eagle was mentioned by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited and he was seperately described by Waugh as ‘Oxford’s only civilising influence.’ Tucked inside the book is a small catalogue of John’s wholesale wine offering at The Spread Eagle, which provides a pleasing connection to reality. There’s also a mad fold out facsimilie of a wall in the hotel where people have marked how tall they are and put their names.
Signed by the author: ‘John Fothergill - with best wishes & apologies for the depressing bits’
Publisher/Published: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Signed third printing of the first edition. Hardback, with dustjacket.
Condition: RNTBCHOII. Dust Jacket been reserved, but is a bit fragmented. Someone called Peter Herbert has put his ex libris in the front at some point too, and I have not tried to remove it.
This is the famous (opinionated, rude, dated and often amusing) diary of John Fothergill, friend of Oscar Wilde and landlord of the Spread Eagle Hotel in Thame. An art gallerist turned hotelier/publican/restaurateur, Fothergill did such a good job that The Spread Eagle was mentioned by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited and he was seperately described by Waugh as ‘Oxford’s only civilising influence.’ Tucked inside the book is a small catalogue of John’s wholesale wine offering at The Spread Eagle, which provides a pleasing connection to reality. There’s also a mad fold out facsimilie of a wall in the hotel where people have marked how tall they are and put their names.
Signed by the author: ‘John Fothergill - with best wishes & apologies for the depressing bits’
Publisher/Published: Chatto & Windus, 1931
Signed third printing of the first edition. Hardback, with dustjacket.
Condition: RNTBCHOII. Dust Jacket been reserved, but is a bit fragmented. Someone called Peter Herbert has put his ex libris in the front at some point too, and I have not tried to remove it.