Arthur Jonathon Edmonds (2 results)

This is a rare publication containing An account of the parish and its inhabitants, and of all notable persons connected with the village for the space of 800 years by The Present Vicar. The book seems to have pasted in photographs of the village houses and places of interest. The book has been rebound in half bound leather with green cloth covers, gilt lettering and dec to spine, 249+4index, browning to f.f.e.p. With owners inscription for Martha Crane, frontise of The Church from the Vicarage Garden loose, some foxing to pages. Great Gransden's older centre consists of cottages grouped round a 16th-century church, dedicated to Saint Bartholomew, whose tower dates from about 1390. The connection between the village and Clare College, Cambridge appears to date from 1346, when the advowson for Great Gransden church parish formed part of the college's original endowment.

Printed by Percy C. Tomson, St Neots, 1892, 1st edition. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, no dustwrapper. 10ins x 7.5ins, [ii], 249pp, 2pp (index, notes and errata) plus 32 real photographs (on 24pp) and a double page pedigree of the Clare family. Many of the pages are browned or foxed. However this is an extremely scarce book in its first edition and benefits from the presence of the early photographs which are all present as listed. G+.