ANDERSON, John Corbet SHROPSHIRE: ITS EARLY HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES. Comprising a Description of the important British and Roman Remains in that County: Its Saxon and Danish Reminiscences: The Domesday Survey of Shropshire , London: Willis and Sotheran, 1864.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Good.. Leather-bound, with 5 bands on spine. Gilt edged. Stamped in gilt on front board at top edge by spine "Adderly Library. Marlborough College." On front free endpaper its stamped "Marlborough College Library. Reading Room" and also written in ink "Sold to Brynton 1986." Spine sides and edges are rubbed also spine ends (see picture). Webbing is showing a little at hinge inside front board, but the book is still tight, no looseness. Some of the pages have foxing, otherwise the pages are very clean and bright, most of the full-page illustrations also have foxing. Two labels pasted on the inside front board are pasted one over the other. A really good tight copy. viii, 491pp, including Subscriber's List, Index of Places and General Index. With 60 pages of drawings on wood, some pages have two drawings on them , plus numerous drawings on wood in the text. Also includes the history of its Forest, Towns, Manors, Abbeys, Churches, Castles and Great Baronial Houses. (9¾"h x 6½"w) (25cms x 17cms) approx. (Book ref. 7556)  £99.00

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