Ebb-Tide at Poole 1815-1851
HILLIER, John
Published: Poole Historical Trust [Poole, 1985]
Stock code: 6757
Price: £18.00
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, text and graphics in sepia throughout, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; and pictorial endpapers; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Due to international competition the price of fish fell sharply in the years following the Napoleonic Wars This well-presented account tells how the once-prosperous town was reduced (temporarily) to near-bankruptcy as a result. Uncommon due to short print-run.