Watermills And Windmills.
£15.00
Publisher
Arthur Cassell.
Place
Sheerness
Date
1976
Synopsis
A historical survey of their rise, decline and fall as portrayed by those of kent.
Item Description
4to. 10 X 7.25 inches. 336 pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge wear and chips, including head and tail of spine. A very good copy. Map bookplate of Edward Carpenter, historian of Romney Marsh. Illustrated by 95 sepia plates, including frontispiece and 7 maps and by text figures. An extensively illustrated history of Kent mills, with historical notes on known sites past and present. A reprint of the classic 1933 work by William Coles Finch (1864-1944), a waterworks engineer of Chatham, who published a number of books on water, mills and on the history and topography of Kent.
[Stock No. 27422]