craske j (5 resultados)

Condición: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:9781905958054.

Fine paperback 196 Pages.

Fine paperback 196 Pages.

Printed on one side of a piece of paper roughly 680 x 430 mm. Good, on aged paper with a little spotting and one short closed tear. Text complete and entirely legible. Heading printed in a variety of types and point sizes, with the Rules and Articles, dated 'Slough, April 20th, 1897. and 'Signed on behalf of the General Body of Subscribers, EDMUND J. CRASKE.', in double-column beneath. Final list of subscribers, in four columns, beginning with 'ABORN, Edwin, Eton' and ending with 'WOLLASTON, H. U., East Burnham'.

A scarce item relating to provincial history and printing. A similar poster, from 1897, is offered separately, and is the only other item relating to the Salt-Hill Society present on ViaLibri. Large poster, printed on one side of 45 x 76 cm sheet of discoloured and brittle wove paper. The item is complete, but there are numerous long tears along the four fold lines (which might be easily repaired with archival tape). Suitable for display, with the first ten lines in characteristic mixture of types and point sizes: 'SALT-HILL SOCIETY, / (INSTITUTED 1783) / FOR THE PROTECTION OF / Persons and Property from Felons & Thieves, / Within the Hundreds of BURNHAM and STOKE, / In the County of Buckingham. / At a General Meeting, held at the PUBLIC HALL, Slough, on Tuesday, the 3rd day of March, / 1914, / It was ordered and agreed that the following be / The Rules and Articles of this Society: / IMPRIMIS, / [.]'. The fifteen articles follow in two columns of small print, 'Signed on behalf of the General Body of Subscribers, EDMUND J. CRASKE, Treasurer.' and dated from 'SLOUGH, March 1914.' Finally, in four columns, comes a list of individuals and organisations (including 'ETON COLLEGE (H. C. HOLLWAY-CALTHROP, Bursar)'), under the heading 'We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed do agree to all the before-mentioned Articles:'.