A Book for all Reasons
Ketton-Cremer, R. W. NORFOLK PORTRAITS , Faber and Faber, London, 1944,1st edn., 180pp, 8pp half tone ills., blue cloth lettered and lined in gilt at spine, fore and lower edges uncut, decorated lettered dustwrapper, eight studies of people and events of Norfolk of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centures, including the Visit of Charles II, the Pastons, Oliver le Neve/Sir Henry Hobart duel, James Windham and the South Sea Bubble, Doctor Messenger Monsey, Benjamin Stillingfleet, Richard Gardiner; and Norfolk and the Threat of Invasion - a history but also a contemporary interest of the author as a Major in the Home Guard, lightly rubbed at tips, light sunning upper edge of boards, edges sl. tanned, faint foxing to endpapers and crease in final free endpaper, dustwrapper: rubbed with loss at spine ends and many other small chips at edges, brittle and torn at spine, repaired to reverse, very good in a poor dustwrapper, (Book ref. 36602) £30.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, A Book for all Reasons , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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