Abstract Returns Charitable Donations Poor (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. folio 81pp disbound. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 820pp Contents clean, crisp and complete. Both boards (3/4 leather, marbled sides) very rubbed and completely detached; spine very rubbed. Marbled endpapers. 21 counties covered inc. London & Westminster.Please be aware that extra postage will be requsted due to weight. Size: Folio (33x28).

The Dorset section, folio, loose and unbound, 36pp. Ruled in columns:- Name of Hundred, Names of the Persons who Gave the Charity, When Given, Whether by Will or Deed, Description of the Charity, and for what Purpose given, Whether in Land or Money, In Whom Now Vested, Gross Amount, Annual Produce of the Money, Clear Annual Produce of that given in Land, and Observations. Not in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis. --- Please e-mail for one of my FREE CATALOGUES which include DORSET - ( History - Topography - Genealogy - Natural History - Biography - Mining - Dialect - Language - etc. ).

4to, iv, 81, [1, blank]pp., ownership signature of Thomas Field (1884), with printed label of G. H. Wyatt on front paste-down, cont. marbled boards, re-backed and new corner pieces, rubbed, joints cracked, orig. printed label on upper cover. Faulkner published this work to draw to public attention "the 'Abuse' that at the present time, and for many years past, have been existing in the distributions of 'Various Charities'. Some curious returns will surprise the Reader, of 'Large Receipt's' and 'Trifling Expenditure', yet declared the 'Trusts in Debt'; to others irregularly paid or not at all, and to numerous accounts of the annual trivial irregularly to be the produce of Gifts to the Poor, that if correct, would appear rather an 'Insult' than intended as a 'Relief'." (Preface). Copac recording a single copy at the British Library.

2 vols., folio, pp.vi,xxviii,195(1)28(4)519(1); 646(2)errata; (351-)390; large folding hand-coloured county map. A reprint of the original editions of 1748/68, issued in parts without the plates though curiously the original directions to binder are faithfully reprinted. Bound without the separate County history title-page. Internally well preserved in contemporary half calf, marbled sides worn and sides detached. A good working copy. County History Essex.

the house of Commons, 26 june 1816 - complet en 2 volumes In-folio - Reliures cassées - Pagination continue - 1719 pages - très frais intérieurement - Envoi rapide et soigné Livres.