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The Fenland past & present




Book Description
Published Leach & Son, Wisbech and Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1878, 1st edition. Green cloth with black & gilt pictorial boards.Gilt lettering to spine and front board. 10.25ins x 6.75ins, xxxii,(including list of subscribers) 649pp text plus chromolithograph frontis, folding map and 26 plates (2 folding) as listed. This exhaustive study covers the history of the area, its geology, botany, fauna, drainage of the Fens and the sanitary conditions of the fens. Previous owners name and date to front pastedown. A little light foxing. Rubbed to corners but generally VG.
Dealer Notes
stock no: 49588
Author
Miller, Samuel H. & Skertchly, Sydney B.J.
Date
1878
Binding
pictorial cloth
Publisher
Leach and Son
Condition
VG
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