Liber Estriae; or Memorials of the Royal Ville and Parish of Eastry, in the County of Kent

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Frontispiece illustration (opposite) + Title Page + Dedication page + vi + 244 pages (actually 247). Condition; Brown ( or Maroon) Hardback binding with black & gilt embossed decoration & gilt embossed lettering to spine & front cover in good condition, some minor ageing, edge wear. Size approx 29 x 23cm. Contents most pages very good and clean, some foxing, mostly front/rear, noticed one pencil note, some looseness between binding and contents, though holding well, just a few corner tip folds, inside front cover is the decorative coat-of-arms bookplate of John Hanson Sperling A.M., blank page before Frontispiece has a modern decorative bookplate & 1935 owners name top. Also found loose at front, free with this is a later 3 page printed item about the Restoration of Eastry Church, list of the restoration committee & first accounts list of 1902 restoration (detailed) in good condition, folded. . Lists 67 subscribers but as some people had more than one copy is 74 copies. Contains 14 b/w illustrations, though many are within the text. 244 pages, but as 4 pages have the same page number, there are 247 pages. To sum up a good hard to find 1st edition with original binding of the history of the village of Eastry in Kent. It is thought only about 100 copies were printed of this 1st edition. . Eastry is a civil parish about 2 miles south west of Sandwich. N° de ref. del artículo 003615

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