Dover Priory
HAINES, Charles Reginald
A History of the Priory of St. Mary the Virgin, and St. Martin of the New Work. With a Foreword by G.G. Coulton.
DOVER COLLEGE PRESENTATION BINDING PLUS SCARCE BOOKLET
Published: University Press Cambridge, 1930
Stock code: 30728
Price: £84.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in blue full calf, sides with double frame border in gilt, upper board with Priory seal blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, marbled endpapers, uncut, fore-edge mildly spotted, backstrip moderately sunned else a near fine copy in presentation binding.
With the presentation bookplate of Dover College signed by headmaster W S Lee mounted on front paste-down. Dover College was founded in (and still occupies) the grounds of the Benedictine Priory. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A COPY OF S.P. Punton-Smith: 'A Short History of the Buildings of the Priory of S. Mary and S. Martin (Newark), Dover' printed for private circulation in 1920 and scarce in its own right. A MOST ATTRACTIVE ASSOCIATION COPY. Bennett pp.121, 125 respectively.