Memorials Of Wessex.

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1933.* Pub: F.G. Longman.* Binding and cover condition: Beige cloth covered boards with black title to face. Yellow cloth spine strip without title. No bumps, minimal wear at head and tail of spine. A few slight marks to boards, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper as issued. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning. Some age darkening to top edge. VG++* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings and photos within text.* Pages: 97 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: First developed as a series of talks on "Memorials of Wessex" broadcast from the Bournemouth Station of the BBC in 1926 and a paper read to the South Dorset branch of the Historical Association, the object was not to write a guidebook but to connect events with sites, buildings, ruins and other objects which survive in our neighbourhood, and above all to realise something of what life was like for the inhabitants of Wessex from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century.* A NEAR FINE copy with only minor faults reducing it to VG+*. No dust jacket.*