Thomas Balston OBE MC (30 July 1883 – 4 October 1967) was a director of the publishers Duckworth and Co., and a noted scholar of English book production...
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Thomas Balston (30 January 1822 – 23 December 1899) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister. The seventh son of William Balston, he was born...
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Balston may refer to: Thomas Balston (1883–1967), member of the Whatman paper-making family Edward Balston (1817–1891), English schoolmaster Nannatherina...
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book was "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" in The Open Window (1911), which also featured a wood engraving by Noel Rooke.[citation needed] Balston credits her...
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burin (or graver), an engraving tool with a V-shaped cutting tip. As Thomas Balston explains, Bewick abandoned the attempts of previous wood-engravers 'to...
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and Archdeacon of Derby. Balston was the son of William Balston, a paper-maker, by his marriage to Catherine, daughter of Thomas Vallance, of Cheapside...
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ISBN 978-1-84916-173-2 Balston, Thomas "John Martin, 1789–1854,. Illustrator and Pamphleteer" (The Bibliographical Society, London, 1934). Balston, Thomas "John Martin...
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Miseries (1993) Derek Parker (ed.) Sacheverell Sitwell: A Symposium (1975) Thomas Balston, Sitwelliana 1915-1927 (1928) John Lehmann, A Nest of Tigers: The Sitwells...
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led to his first book, and a second was commissioned for Duckworth by Thomas Balston, to be on Mount Athos. He later visited India, the Soviet Union, and...
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substantially aided by the extent to which her personal charm impacted upon Thomas Balston, a director of Duckworth's. She was one of a handful of women writers...
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