The County Books. Isle of Man by Canon E. H. Stenning - 1950

London England: Robert Hale. Very Good. 1950. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback.prev owners name insiden sunned cover Here is a little country possessed of complete Home Rule - with a parliament older than the Parliament in Westminster - a very grandmother of Parliaments; with a church that is more ancient than either York or Canterbury - yet all that most people know of it is its cats have no tails, that its Income Tax is only 2/- in the £, and that every year there are run hair-raising motor-cycle races of world-wide fame! This excellent book puts into the hand of the reader a full and vivid account of all the thousnad interest of this glorious little Kingdom, which historically and geographically ought to be kept under a glass case in the World's Museum. Illustrated and with a Map. 448 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .