The Seaboard and the Down
( WEST TARRING ) WARTER, John Wood
Or, My Parish in the South. By an old Vicar.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN PUBLISHER'S CLOTH
Published: Rivingtons, 1860
Stock code: 31599
Price: £146.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), title-vignettes, titles in red and black, text in printed panel with marginal references; publisher's red-brown cloth, sides with blind frame border, backs with printed paper labels, marbled endpapers, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding.
Dedicated to the Archdeaconry of Chichester, this scarce work delivers a fascinating and valuable account of village and social life in mid-Victorian Sussex. Warter was Vicar of West Tarring and author of several other works on Sussex history and topography. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.