Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, unpaginated, map on the EPs, 168 b/w illustrations.

Very good with light spotting to top-edge, internally with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

Tents on the common 1596-1676; the first buildings 1678-1718; from kip to bowra 1719-38; heyday of the masters of ceremonies 1739-1800; the waters of scandal recede 1800-24; the calverley development 1825-40; the coming of the railway 1841-59; expansion 1860-99; the charter years 1889-1909; the world wars 1911-44; the post-war period 1945-90