Edith F. Carey — The Channel Islands

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated work on the Channel Islands, with a folding map. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seventy-five colour plates, and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. A historical and geographical guide to the Channel Island, with chapters on feudal tenures, law courts and official seals, Jersey in the eighteenth century, Guernsey in the days of the Stuarts, the "key of the Channel", and the lesser islands. Written by Edith F. Carey, a British author. Illustrated by Henry Bowser Wimbush, an English landscape painter, book illustrator and postcard artist. In the original blue pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards, including a paint mark to the front board. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: Henry B. Wimbush. Very Good .