Great Livery Companies of the City of London

A smart first edition of Dennis Flanders" finely illustrated survey of the Great Twelve Livery Companies, signed by the author. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilt.This volume is a first edition.This volume is signed by the author, Dennis Flanders, to the half-title page.This volume presents a historical and architectural survey of the Great Twelve Livery Companies, the most prominent and influential of London"s ancient guilds, which once regulated crafts and safeguarded the quality of goods.This copy includes Flanders" 39 of pen-and-ink drawings of the livery halls of the City of London across fifty pages, with many illustrations appearing across two pages. This copy also features a colour frontispiece. Collated, complete.With the four-page publisher's leaflet. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. The odd slight handling mark to boards. Very slight fading to extremities. The odd minor handling mark to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. The odd spot of damp staining to publisher's leaflet, with ink annotations. Signed by the author to the half-title. Very Good Indeed.