Beautiful Britain - Oxford (Royal Canadian Edition)

Montreal: Cambridge Corporation Limited This is another of the Royal Canadian Editions of the Beautiful Britain series. This one is in full blue moroccon leather with TEG, gilt emblems on the font along with the title, 5 raised bands with title in gilt on the spine. Thie book has 60 illustrations and 265 pages, This edition matches three others that are also listed, Beautiful Britain, Vanished and vanishing London and Beautiful Britain - Scenery of London. Some of the table of contents are: On entering oxford, the stones of oxford, undergrauates of the present and past, college servants of the present and the past, the oxford day, in a college garden, old oxford days, in praise of oxford. The author states that many of the pages came from a search into his own recollections of Oxford. along with his use of other research materials. There were only 1000 of these books issued. A good looking book with some shelf wear to the leather and a faded spine - blue silk endpages complement the covers - there is a slight tear on the edge of one of the pages. A great look at Oxford and the illustrations are as bright as when published. Priced for the wear indicated.. Royal Canadian Edition. Full Blue Moroccon Leather. Very Good. Illus. by FULLEYLOVE, JOHN. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.