Sandwich: The Story Of A Famous Kentish Port..
In original pictorial stiff card wrappers. Light foxing of edges but otherwise a very good copy.
£30.00
Publisher
The Homeland Association Ltd., Chandos Chambers, 15 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C. Frederick Warne and Co.,
Place
London
Date
1907
Synopsis
A historical guide to the chief points of interest. by george gray (g. yorke ray). illustrated from drawings by h. maurice page, and from photographs.
published under the general editorship of prescott row and arthur henry henderson, by the homeland association for the encouragement of touring in great britain. second edition.
(the homeland handbooks, no. 63).
Item Description
8vo. 5 x 7.25 inches. ii - viii pp. advertisements and series list + [3] + 120 pp. + ix - xi pp. advertisements.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 11 photographic and engraved plates, including frontispiece, by double page plan and map and by drawings and photographs in text. Decorated by head and tailpiece vignettes.
Notes
One of the numerous Homeland Handbooks series of guides. A very useful pocket sized guide. This paperbound second edition is dated late 1907 according to the series list and probably appeared in the same year as the cloth bound first edition. The title page varies from the first, with an additional editor and change of publisher's address recorded.
[Stock No. 23352]
Subjects
20th Century • Cinque Ports • Guides • History • Kent • Sandwich • Topography