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William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland
William Cavendish-Bentinck was a rent seeker and Master of the Horse.
This is quite a common bookplate. I found a copy in a book which I bought for £3 at a bookfair in June 2023, so it was presumably from the library of the Duke of Portland. It was in a copy of Mémoires d'un Bourgeois de Paris, Tome Troisiéme by Le Docteur L. Véron, published in Paris in 1854. Many of the pages of this 169 year-old book were uncut, both at the top and sides, so it had never been read. As it had fallen out of its binding, I recycled the text block, after removing the bookplate.
The 12th and current Duke of Portland plays David Archer in The Archers.
Date: 1903
Plate size: trimmed
Design: 114 x 86 mm max.
Credit: W.P.B. (William Phillips Barrett)
Designer: J.A.C. Harrison
Proof: AH
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