W. Ralph Hall Caine — Isle of Man

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1909. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on the Isle of Man, with folding maps. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, nineteen colour plates, and two folding maps. Collated complete. A detailed work on the Isle of Man, with chapters on geographical facts, the Manx people, Celtic bondage, Viking conquerors, the act of settlement, recent history, and much more. Written by William Ralph Hall Caine, a prolific British author of books and pamphlets. Illustrated by Alfred Heaton Cooper, an English watercolour artist. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the rear board with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: A. Heaton Cooper. Very Good .