Kendal in the nineteenth century: A book of drawings by Wainwright, Alfred - 1977-01-01

'Westmorland gazette', 1977-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Westmorland Gazette [Published date: 1977]. Hard cover, 249 (unpaginated) pp. No other printings listed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Green rexine covers have two pin-hole sized dings to the bottom corner of the top front cover and light bumping and scuffing to edges. Binding tight. One page has a small smudge. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along the edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Research by John Marsh. [From front jacket flap] This book is dedicated to the memory of the first men in Kendal with cameras. It is only because of the early efforts of these enthusiastic amateur photographers that we, today, can visualise the town as it was inVictorian times before the urban scene was transformed by the changes and clearances of the 20the century.But many of these old photographs have, with age, become faded or developed blemishes, and are unsuitable for reproduction. This book is an attempt to preserve a representative collection of the old and now-vanished scenes by âconversionâ of selected photographs into a uniform series of pen drawings, 130 in all, supplemented by maps of the period and a descriptive and historical narrative.