Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

With 8 plates in colour and 20 illustrations in black and white. (britain in pictures).

Item Description

8vo 9x 6.5 inches. 47 + [1] pp. Bound in original red and white stiff pictorial boards, in matching dust wrapper, which is sunned with edge wear and chips. Extremities worn, including head and tail of spine and flyleaves browned; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 colour plates and by black and white text figures. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. A volume in Collins's Britain in Pictures series published during the war between 1941 and 1945. By Robert McNair Wilson (1882-1963), surgeon, historian, journalist and writer of fiction, including short stories.