Dorling Rev E E Pike (1 results)

Hardback, approx 12.5 x 10 inches. Maroon full morocco leather binding with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine, and blind embossed decoration on back cover. Marbled endpapers. All page edges gilt. In very good condition. Extremities rubbed, corners slightly bumped, some fading to spine, slight stain lower spine. Strong binding with reinforced endpapers as bound. Private Bookplate on front endpaper, Captain C.R. E. RADCLIFFE. A couple of minor handling marks else inside pages all very clean and bright (bright glossy style paper.) Illustrated with over 200 photographs of the important country houses in the county, and of the various personalities. (Wiltshire: pp. 1 - 191 / Dorset pp. 192 - 304 ). CONTENTS: Wiltshire: 68 pages by Dorking about the county, with many pictures of county houses, etc.; Contemporary biographies, by Pike: Members of Parliament / Nobility and Gentary / Gentry and magistrates / Clergy / Medical / Legal / Dental / Educational, Literary, etc./ Architects and Surveyors / Great Western Railway Officials / Commercial. DORSET: 33 pages by Dorking about the county, with many pictures of county houses, etc.( including: Branksea Castle). Contemporary biographies, by Pike: Members of Parliament / Nobility and Gentry / Gentry and magistrates (including Alfred Pope, Thomas Hardy and Van Raalte) / Clergy / Medical / Legal / Dental / Educational, Literary, etc./ Architects and Surveyors / Great Western Railway Officials / Commercial. FASCINATING BOOK.