A clean sound copy of an account of people who have lived to 100 years old and upwards with tips on how to do so, by the Nottingham born historian, poet, topographer and sometime editor/proprietor of the Nottingham Mercury. First Edition in original gilt and blind stamped publishers cloth. Crown 8vo [iv],399pps.Tissue guarded engraved frontispiece of the 169 year old Henry Jenkins [ see other items on Henry Jenkins] Whilst digital reproductions abound the original is scarce.