John Potter Briscoe [editor] — Old Nottinghamshire

London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 1881. Leather. An illustrated history of the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, edited by British librarian John Potter Briscoe. With a frontispiece and twenty-two in-text figures. A detailed and comprehensive history of the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. The geography of which is largely defined by the River Trent, which forms a wide valley which crosses the county from the south-west to the north-east. This volume contains records of the hospital of St. John the Baptist, important churches, various industries including the fisheries, the origin of the Mickleton Jury, and the marriage of Alfred the Great, amongst many other important events and developments in the area. Edited by John Potter Briscoe, an English public librarian. Bound in quarter calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the extremities. Loss to the edges of the front endpapers. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .