Description and condition: Red cloth hardback, TEG, 8vo, xvi, 248 pp, colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Good or better reading copy with wear and light soiling to covers, pumping to spine ends and corners, 1/12 inch split to tail of spine, foxed EPs, mostly good clean pages. Contents: With an introduction by Egerton Castle. Illustrated with about 50 reproductions of original drawings and rare prints in the possession of the author. The articles in the book, first appeared in The Beacon, a Somerset journal. This is the first publication in book form and was limited to 500 copies. A list of the subscribers follows the index. According to the name on the FFEP this is copy no. 265 purchased by Benjamin John of Bath. |