ANDERSON J. Corbet — Croydon Pre-Historic & Roman. SIGNED SUBSCRIBER'S COPY

[Privately Printed, 1874]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with title and first page of text in red and black, 8 plates (all original blank guards present) and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, two blank preliminaries mildly browned; original decorative terracotta cloth, sides with double Oxford frame border in black enclosing title and tool in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge cracked at title (but binding entirely firm and sound), joints lightly rubbed else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER SAMUEL ASH OF PORTLAND ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, AND BEARS HIS SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. John Corbet Anderson was perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most prolific, authority on the history of the town. This work is the first of four linked volumes, published privately by subscription, covering aspects of the town's past, but each volume is complete in itself.Subscriber's copies of any of Anderson's works are notably uncommon.