
A Corner of Kent; or, some Account of the Parish of Ash-next-Sandwich, its Historical Sites and Existing Antiquities
PLANCHE, J.R.
FIRST DEDICATED HISTORY OF THE PARISH
Published: Robert Hardwicke, 1864
Stock code: 13399
Price: £210.00
8vo., First Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece, title-vignette, 10 plates, a map, a plan and 5 woodcut illustrations in the text, frontispiece with two short tears (without loss) at margin, frontispiece and title lightly age-soiled; original coarse-grain cloth elaborately blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, black endpapers, corners mildly bruised else a very good, sound copy of a very scarce work.
With a neat contemporary inscription on title and associated personal stamp on half-title, frontispiece recto and dedication. A contemporary sheet of notes ion MS is mounted on rear paste-down. The first dedicated history of the parish. SCARCE. Anderson p.136; Bennett, p.8.