History Of Wellington: The Materials For The History Of The Town Of Wellington, Co Somerset by Arthur L Humphreys - 1889

Henry Gray, 1889. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1889. No Edition Noted. 308 pages. No dust jacket. White and brown cloth. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and pastedown with rough cut edges to text block. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Boards have heavy ink marks and rubbing. Heavy bumping to corners and major crushing to spine ends. Major sunning to spine and book is forward leaning. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Henry Gray, 1889. First edition. Hardback. Good. 9" by 7". None. A limited edition of this work on the history of the town of Wellington with a letter from the author. First edition. Limited to only 50 copies. With a letter from the author, dated 1889. Illustrated throughout with one fold-out map to the front. The history of Wellington, including: the expulsion of the Celts, the charter, subsides, civil war, Restoration, sanitary improvements, and the wool industry. Written by Arthur Lee Humphreys, a British writer and historian. In the original paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Joints starting but still firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with age toning to the endpapers. Previous owners' bookplates to the front pastedown and endpaper. Good

London: Henry Gray, Wellington: Tozer and Gregory, 1889.. Folding map, xv + 308pp, sm. 4to, untrimmed in the original, slightly marked, paper boards, later spine, covers slightly rubbed to edges. 50 Copies only of this Large Paper Edition Printed. ---- Regular CATALOGUES issued, please e-mail for a FREE copy, they include SOMERSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ) - ---