A History of Wiltshire (Darwen county histories) by Watkin, Bruce - 1989-01-01

HARDBACK ?A DARWEN COUNTY HISTORY,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Phillimore & Co Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to head of spine. Some minor damp staining to lower inside edge. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, line drawings & maps throughout.* Pages: 123 pp. text. vii pp. study list, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Wiltshire is widely regarded as the county of Archaeology, of ancient history. It boasts the giant stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge and the greatest concentration of burial mounds in the British Isles. It is perhaps the oldest surviving English county, for it was a division of the early West Saxon kingdom and the only one to survive, intact, the brutal re-organisation of local government of 1974. This book is the first comprehensive account of the social and economic changes which have affected the county over 6,000 years.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced by minor dust jacket faults to VG.*