Welbore St. Clair Baddeley — A History of Cirencester

Cirencester, Cirencester Newspaper Company, Limited, 1924. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this detailed history of Cirencester, a market town in England. First edition. Illustrated with three folding maps and plans, and thirty-two plates. Collated complete. A detailed history of Cirencester, a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. With chapters on pre-Roman times, monuments and inscriptions, commerce, the Norman Conquest, the reign of Henry II, and more. Written by Welbore St Clair Baddeley, an English historian, archaeologist, dramatist, travel-writer, and poet. In the original quarter crushed morocco binding with green cloth covered boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Light loss to the head of the spine with a small crack to the rear joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting and minor age toning to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper and pastedown with the bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: None. Good .