Annals of Kirkby Lonsdale and Lunesdale in bygone days.

First edition. Subscribers edition. Format, large octavo. Physical description, viii -xiv, [2], [1] 2 - 272. Plates [37] including a frontispiece, all as called for. All edges uncut. Eight page Subscribers List. Page [5] with an eight page stapled limp card, booklet pasted on, the upper cover printed with - Kirkby Lonsdale | February, 1889, | to | December, 1908 |, plus pages [4 & 5] with portrait photographs of an unnamed man and woman. Corrigendum slip pasted in before page 209. The book contents are clean and fresh. Binding of light brown cloth over boards, the upper cover and spine, slightly sunned, lettered in gilt. Both hinges cracked exposing the binding mesh, otherwise a very good plus copy of an uncommon book. Pearson, Alexander (1870-1954), solicitor and author, born in house near Lune Cottage, Kirkby Lonsdale. For more details see Cumbrian Lives. Hodgson, p.228.