The Victoria History of the County of York
( VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY ) YORKSHIRE
Edited by William Page. Volume One.
THE ORIGINAL EDITION: 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Constable, 1907
Stock code: 28732
Price: £90.00
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title and series title in red and black, 21 monochrome plates on 11, 25 illustrations in the text and 3 folding maps coloured in outline; decorative red cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip with loss at head (not affecting lettering), short split in upper joint at head else a good, sound copy of a scarce work.
1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, tiny stamp on series title (only) and press-mark at tail of backstrip. The original edition includes the geological map omitted from the facsimile reissue of 1967. SCARCE.