
Hertfordshire Families
( VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY ) HERTFORDSHIRE.
Edited by Duncan Warrand.
EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE COUNTY GENEALOGY: 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: HMSO, 1907
Stock code: 680
Price: £780.00
Folio, title in red and black, with 39 fine plates of portraits (2 in photogravure and a number with 2 portraits), very numerous heraldic illustrations in the text and 14 large folding pedigrees; blue buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, clean copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate, small neat stamp on half-title, title, dedication, throughout the text and on versos of plates, small neat labels on folding pedigrees and neat number on back. ONLY TWO OF THESE MAGNIFICENT GENEALOGICAL VOLUMES WERE EVER COMPLETED - THE PRESENT WORK AND THAT FOR NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. THE GREAT MAJORITY OF COPIES ARE IN INSTITUTIONAL HOLDINGS AND IT IS RARE FOR EITHER VOLUME TO APPEAR FOR SALE.