The Ancient Trade Guilds and Companies of Salisbury

A scarce history of old Salisbury guilds and companies, with plates, written by Alderman Charles Haskins. First edition.In the publisher's original cloth binding.With a ten-page list of subscribers to the beginning of the work.Illustrated with thirty-one monochrome plates. Collated, complete.With chapters on the origins and developments of English guilds, the merchant guild of New Sarum, formation of the city companies, and specific sections on Salisbury's tailors, brewers, butchers, shoemakers, jewelers and more.Written by Alderman Charles Haskins, JP and Mayor of Salisbury. With an introduction by Rev. Canon Chr. Wodsworth. In the original cloth binding. Externally, with rubbing to the extremities and loss to the spine head. With slight fading to the cloth and a couple damp spots to the front board. Front hinge is starting, but firm. Bookplate of one Francis R. Y. Radcliffe to the front pastedown. Internally, lacking front free endpaper, otherwise firmly bound. With scattered spotting throughout and a contemporary ink inscription to the half title page. Good.…