editor harry r marsh (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Minimal wear. Includes many pages of local advertisers.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. VG, hardback, maroon cloth covers with gilt titles on spine and titles and borough insignia on front cover, contents are clean and unmarked, octavo 197pp. The guide and advertising for Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.Elaborately illustrated in colour and b/w. Complete with all the relevant advertising of the times. Book produced after several rural and urban districts became united (Clare, Haverhill and Thingoe). The town has many claims to fame with a long Saxon history, magnificent St. mary's Church, the cathedral, birthplace of Magna carta, 11th-century town layout, The Bury Abbey Church at one time ranked along with St. Peter's in Rome and colgne cathedral as apex of Christianity. Corn exchange. old Town Hall, Cupola House, Norman Tower, Moyses hall Art museum, Chapters focus on Hengrave Hall, Gershom Parkington Memorial collection; Bury Cross; Havehill; Magna carta; Saxon settlements; notables; 1748 map; gazetteer; hub of East anglia; Rymer Point; map of district; map of the abbey. A very historic and picturesque place to visit.