Editore: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1937
Da: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Condizione: Good. 1937. First Edition. 246 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Colour fold out map to rear. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Redacted address label and inscription to front free end-paper. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean.
Editore: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; SPCK, London, 1937
Da: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing hardback 246 pages folding colour maps at rearVery Good condition in near very good dust jacket (chipping at corners) No inscriptions.
Editore: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1937
Da: SGOIS, Bungay, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. No dust jacket over the black boards, tanned and foxed pages. Heavy book may incur extra postal charges if ordered from overseas.
Editore: R. Cruttwell, 1792
Da: best books, St. leonards on sea, Regno Unito
Full-Leather. Condizione: Fair. Volume one leather boards are detached and the spine is missing. Volume two front leather board detached, back board and spine missing and front marble end page, previous owners old name label on front inside board. Both volumes have gilt side page edges and previous owners initials on the title page. Suitable for re-binding. First and only edition, edited by the Cornish poet Richard Polwhele, but sponsored and published by a literary society in Exeter - and largely written by them. Polwhele's preface gives a good deal of information about the contributors, who include Samuel Badcock, John Bamfylde, Hugh Downman, Edward Drewe and Stephen Weston - as well as Polwhele himself. The only named female contributor is 'Miss Hunt', the daughter of Dr Rowland Hunt of Stoke Doyle, Northants, who wrote an elegy on Dunkeswell Abbey (a little north of Honiton). This is Mary Hunt (1764-1834), who is said to have been a friend of the Bowdler family, and to have taught Princess Charlotte (d. 1817). She spent the latter part of her life at Exeter and is buried at the Cathedral there.