Wanstead through the Ages
PHILLIPS, W.V.
Colour Illustrations by Arthur Parsons. Black and White Sketches by Arthur H. Barns. [Second Edition. With 'A Message to Youth' by Winston S. Churchill].
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Published: Vawser & Wiles, [1949]
Stock code: 10543
Price: £34.00
4to., Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 20 coloured plates (all with original captioned tissue guards), 6 plates on monochrome and a folding map; armorial cloth gilt, gilt back, upper board lightly creased, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible) else a very good, clean copy.
A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. First published by Guardian Press in a limited edition in 1946. This edition adds the monochrome plates by Barns and a detailed Appendix. Green, Howson & O'Leary, 2081; not recorded by Powell or Woods.