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1894 · Best.-Nr. 096437 — N: privately printed 1894. Compiled and arranged by T. Johnson Salt organist and choirmaster S. Mary and All Saints Trentham. Pp. 64last blank printed music; handsomely bound by Bagguley in full brown morocco over bevelled boards the spine lettered and decorated in gilt boards panelled in gilt & blind with gilt corner decorations the upper board lettered in gilt and with a small central fleuron gilt edges corners of boards lightly worn joints rubbed tiny snag at head of spine; a.e.g.; brown moire silk endpapers with elaborate finely tooled gilt doublures; bookplate on verso of upper free endpaper the outer leaves a trifle foxed and soiled; privately printed Newcastle-under-Lyme n.d.1894. Printed privately for the Duchess of Sutherland for use only in the Church of S. Mary and All Saints Trentham. Trentham was the seat of the Dukes of Sutherland. This copy inscribed and signed by the Duchess to the Reverend Thurston Rivington dated November 5 1896 on blank preliminary leaf. Millicent 4th Duchess of Sutherland 1867-1955 was sometimes nicknamed 'Meddlesome Millie'. She was a well known social reformer involved in several local causes the most notable being her campaign to eliminate the use of poisonous lead in the glazing process in the pottery industry. During the First World War she established a Red Cross Hospital The Millicent Sutherland Ambulance in Belgium and France. G. T. Bagguley is today best known for his 'Sutherland tooling process' by which colour tooling was executed on vellum which he mainly used on books bound for the Duchess of Sutherland. privately printed unknown