WILMINGTON SQUARE BOOKS
An imprint of Bitter Lemon Press
First published in 2014 by
Wilmington Square Books
47 Wilmington Square
London WC1X 0ET
Copyright © 2014 Nigel Daly
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ISBN 978-1-908524-393
Edited, designed and typeset by Jane Havell Associates
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Endpapers: Robert Bateman, The Four Seasons, watercolour on gold medium, private collection.
Frontispiece: Robert Bateman, Rose 1877 (detail), 1906–8, oil on canvas, private collection.
Sculptures by Robert Bateman on pages 1, above and 323 at Biddulph Old Hall, 1874–5, on page 6 at St Bartholemew’s Church, Benthall, 1893, and on page 336 at Rockfield House, Nunney (Nunney Delamere), after 1906.