The Medieval Town Series - a complete set of all 39 volumes, including the incredibly rare title, The Story of Santiago de Compostela. A single-owner collection, assembled over very many years. Published between 1898 and 1933, they form a fascinating collection of companions to these towns and cities. Because copies were suppressed or quickly pulled from circulation, The Story of Santiago de Compostela is by far the scarcest and most valuable volume in the entire Dent's Medieval Towns collection, making complete 39-volume sets very rare. In 1912, English writer Catherine Gasquoine Hartley published The Story of Santiago de Compostela as part of the Medieval Towns series. She and her publisher were successfully sued for plagiarism in 1921 by Annette M. Meakin, who proved that Hartley's book copied heavily from her earlier 1909 work, Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain. The owner reported that the last copy he saw of Santiago, some years ago, was priced at over £700.00 on its own. The titles in order of original publication, with the date of the edition in the collection where that copy is not a first printing. There are 24 first editions, 15 later printings, and one ex-library copy. • 1898: Perugia (Margaret Symonds & Lina Duff Gordon), 1904 • 1898: Toledo (Hannah Lynch) • 1899: Nuremberg (Cecil Headlam), 1908 • 1899: Rouen (Theodore Andrea Cook), 1917 • 1900: Assisi (Lina Duff Gordon) 1903 • 1900: Moscow (Wirt Gerrare) 1903 • 1900: Constantinople (William Holden Hutton) 1925 • 1900: Florence (Edmund G. Gardner) • 1901: Rome (Norwood Young) • 1901: Bruge (Ernest Gilliat-Smith) • 1902: Verona (Alethea Wiel) 1907 • 1902: Prague (Count Lutzow) • 1902: Cairo (Stanley Lane-Poole) 1906 • 1902: Chartres (Cecil Headlam) 1908 • 1903: Seville (Walter M. Gallichan) • 1904: Siena and San Gimignano (Edmund G. Gardner) 1913 • 1904: London (Henry B. Wheatley) 1922 • 1904: Ferrara (Ella Noyes) • 1905: Cambridge (Charles W. Stubbs) • 1905: Edinburgh (Oliphant Smeaton) • 1905: Venice (Thomas Okey) 1928 • 1906: Paris (Thomas Okey) • 1906: Brussels (Ernest Gilliat-Smith) • 1907: Dublin (D A Chart) • 1907: Oxford (Cecil Headlam) 1931 • 1908: Milan (Dora Noyes) 1926 • 1909: Pisa (Janet Ross) • 1910: Padua (Cesare Foligno) • 1911: Coventry (Mary Dormer Harris) • 1911: Avignon (Thomas Okey) • 1912: Lucca (Janet Ross) • 1912: Canterbury (Katherine Kimball) • 1912: Jerusalem (C.M. Watson) • 1912: Santiago de Compostela (C.G.Hartley) • 1913: Ravenna (Edward Hutton) 1926 • 1923: Bologna (Alethea Wiel) Ex-lib • 1927: Naples (Major Benton Fletcher) • 1932: Winchester (W. Lloyd Woodland) • 1933: Basel (M.D. Hottinger)