Rawnsley,H.D. — A Nation's Heritage

George Allen & Unwin Ltd This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original blue cloth boards with paper title label to the head of the front cover.This copy has one small previous owner's name to the front endpaper.Complete with 8 black and white plates of Westbury College,Leigh Woods,Coleridge's Cottage in Nether Stowey,The Horner woods in Exmoor and The Old Post-Office in Tintangel.This copy unusually still has a perforated advertisemnt for the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and this is placed at the rear of the book.Nice clean copy internally.The binding remains firm with no hinge weakness,no cracking to the joints.Rev H.D. Rawnsley was a co-founder of the National Trust, but that is not all.He was a great advocate for the English Lake District and wrote many works on The Lakes.He was an educationalist,and animal welfare enthusiast and he also served as a Parish Priest for over 30 years and appointed a Canon of Carlisle Cathedral and an Honorary Chaplain to King George V. A Nation's Heritage - the title of Hardwicke Rawnsley's last book, published in 1920, just before his death is dedicated, "To the Memory of the First Duke of Westminster, of Miss Octavia Hill, and of Sir Robert Hunter, without whose help the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest and Natural Beauty would not easily have come into being. 8vo 160pp First Edition 1st Impression [1920] Very Good No Jacket First Edition 1st Printing London 8vo