FINE COPY IN VERY GOOD SLIP CASE. BEING A FURTHER SELECTION OF BRIEF LIVES TOGETHER WITH EXCERPTS FROM HIS WRITINGS ON ANTIQUITIES SCIENCE AND FOLKLORE.
FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. VERY GOOD REBOUND WITH ORIGINAL SPINE AND BLIND-STAMPED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS SMALL STAIN ON FRONT BOARD CORNERS BUMPED CONTENTS CLEAN. ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLE GLUED TO FRONTISPIECE VERSO AND ENDPAPERS. ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. TO THE REAR OF THE BOOK IS A LONG INK INSCRIPTION (1931) BY THE PREVIOUS OWNER MARY LOUISA ROW MAKING REFERENCE TO THE FAMILILY HISTORY AND MENTIONING THE NAMES OF ROWE MAYNARD (OF MAYFIELD) AND JOHN EDWARDS WHO WAS HIGH SHERIFF IN 1744. ALSO MENTION OF WHITFELD SIR THOMAS MAY OF THE OLD PALACE AND JUDGE SIR JOHN JEFFERAY.
NO DATE – BUT VICTORIAN. CONSIDERS THE LIVES OF RICHARD BENTLEY MARVELL LORD FAIRFAX ANNE CLIFFORD WILLIAM MASON JOHN FISHER AND RICHARD ARKWRIGHT. OCTAVO 480 pp. ORIGINAL BLIND STAMPED BEVELLED BOARDS SOME LOSS AT TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE AND TWO INCH CRACK IN THE JOINT. SOME FOXING TO EARLY PAGES BUT OTHERWISE A TIGHT AND CLEAN COPY.
FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY WITHOUT A DUSTWRAP. THE BOOK IS VERY GOOD WITH SOME LIGHT FOXING TO THE PASTEDOWNS. INCLUDES 20 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS AND 41 DRAWINGS AND MAPS. THE ACCOUNT OF THE WREN. NEW NATURALIST MONOGRAM – NUMBER 3.
