Recording Britain
by Arnold Palmer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$479.14NZ$431.22
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About This Item
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1946. Cloth. Very Good. 10" by 7.5",. None. An illustrated collection printed in association with the Pilgrim Trust, recording the changing face of Britain, each volume covering a different area of England with watercolour drawings in colour and monochrome of places and buildings of characteristic In four volumes complete. Volume one covers the areas of London and Middlesex, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Volume two covers the areas of Essex, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Huntingtonshire, Northamptonshire and Rutlandshire, Norfolk and Yorkshire. Volume three covers the areas of Lancashire and Westmoreland, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Shropshire, Welsh Counties, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Volume four covers the areas of Wiltshire, Somerset, Cornwall, Devon, Hampshire, Sussex and Kent. The Pilgrim Trust is a London-based charitable trust. It was founded in 1930 by a two million pound grant by Edward Harkness, an American philanthropist. The trust's first secretary was former civil servant, Thomas Jones. Today, the trust makes grants of roughly 1.5 million pounds each year. Around 60% of these funds are given to preservation projects, particularly those aimed at preserving the fabric of architecturally or historically significant buildings, or those aimed at preserving historically interesting artifacts or documents. The trust has a particular interest in the preservation of historic churches and their contents. With previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown to three volumes. In buckram bindings. Externally, generally smart but with fading to spine and some boards. With slight bumping to extremities and slight staining to some boards. Internally, firmly bound. Bright but with occasional scattered spotting, predominantly to endpapers. With initial ink stamps to rear endpapers to three volumes Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SET41-G-2
- Title
- Recording Britain
- Author
- Arnold Palmer
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- 10" by 7.5",
- Keywords
- History Britain Archaeology Topography Britain
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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