Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Rare and modern books

Phillips W.V.

Wanstead through the Ages. Colour Illustrations by Arthur Parsons. Black and White Sketches by Arthur H. Barns. [Second Edition. With 'A Message to Youth' by Winston S. Churchill]. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

Vawser & Wiles, 1949

39.10 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

Ask for more info

Payment methods

Details

Year of publication
1949
Author
Phillips W.V.
Publishers
Vawser & Wiles
Keyword
topography, essex, wanstead, w.v. phillips, topography, essex, wanstead, through, ages
Languages
English

Description

4to., Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 20 coloured plates (all with original captioned tissue guards), 6 plates on monochrome and a folding map; armorial cloth gilt, gilt back, upper board lightly creased, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible) else a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. First published by Guardian Press in a limited edition in 1946. This edition adds the monochrome plates by Barns and a detailed Appendix. Green, Howson & O'Leary, 2081; not recorded by Powell or Woods.