The History Of Romney Marsh…[facsimile Reprint Of] The History Of Romney Marsh From Its Earliest Formation To 1836.
£2,018.00
Publisher
[Forgotten Books].
Place
[London]
Synopsis
With a glance at its adjacencies, and some remarks on the situation of the ancient anderida. being an accompaniment to ' the history of rye.' by william holloway.
Item Description
8vo., 9.75 x 7.5 inches. [xvi] = 182 pp. + [2] pp. list of subscribers + 12 pp publishers catalogue + [6] pp.. In pictorial card wrappers. A very good copy. Illustrated by 4 plates, including frontispiece. map and plan. Three of the engravings, folding maps and a plan which appeared in the original have been omitted in this reprint, although blank pages remain. Facsimile reprint of the work by William Holloway (1785-1870) first published in 1849 by John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho Square, London. This very scarce work, the first history of Romney Marsh, had appeared in a limited edition of approximately 200 copies, of which 111 were noted in the list of subscribers, the remainder were to be sold, but many were destroyed in a fire which accounts for its extreme rarity of the original today. A welcome reprint of this elusive book. The title was a follow up to the author's 1847 book on Rye.
[Stock No. 27397]
