London, Adam and Charles Black, 1912
[london] one of 550 signed copies. An attractive first edition set of Thomas Barratt's The Annals of Hampstead, limited to 550 copies signed by the author, and illustrated with over 500 plates, maps and plans. 'The Annals is undoubtedly the best-illustrated work of its class... Among the five hundred and odd illustrations which have found their way into these volumes, there is not one which has not its own value and significance' (vol 1, xxxvi).
First edition, signed by the author, one of 550 copies signed; 3 vols; 4to (29 x 24 cm); over 500 illustrations, including plates (some mounted, some colour), a folding map (a facsimile of Rocque's 1744 Survey of London), plans, and textual figures, titled tissue guards, light spotting to endpapers, leaves slightly toned; publisher's blue cloth, armorial device and gilt stamped ornamental border to front covers, gilt lettering to spines, all edges gilt, rubbing to spine ends and corners. A very good set.
First edition, signed by the author, one of 550 copies signed; 3 vols; 4to (29 x 24 cm); over 500 illustrations, including plates (some mounted, some colour), a folding map (a facsimile of Rocque's 1744 Survey of London), plans, and textual figures, titled tissue guards, light spotting to endpapers, leaves slightly toned; publisher's blue cloth, armorial device and gilt stamped ornamental border to front covers, gilt lettering to spines, all edges gilt, rubbing to spine ends and corners. A very good set.
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