The Story of Prittlewell Church [Essex]
( Alan STAPLEY, illus. ) GOWING, Ellis N.
With Illustrations by Alan W. Stapley.
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Prittlewell Parochial Church Council Southend-on-Sea, 1932
Stock code: 19076
Price: £30.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 6 full-page illustrations and a full-page plan in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
The first appearance of Gowing's history, the humble format of which belies its content. The work has been successively expanded and reissued several times but never with such charm as in this first version. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Powell p.258