Mark Searle — Turnpikes and Toll-Bars

London, Hutchinson and Co. 1930. First edition. Leather. A two-volume limited edition exploration of England's turnpikes and toll-bars, copiously illustrated including twelve colour plates. A limited edition, being number 240 of 500 copies. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's half morocco binding, with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrappers.Volume I illustrated with a colour frontispiece, five colour plates, eighty-one monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations. Volume II illustrated with a colour frontispiece, five colour plates, seventy-three monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete. A wonderfully detailed work on turnpikes and toll-bars of England, though Searle also looks briefly at Wales, Australia, Canada, Scotland, Ireland, the U.S. Japan, and the rest of the world. Notably this volume takes a special look at the bridges of London, detailing their history.With charming references made about famous authors and turnpikes, with a variety of extracts from authors including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Shakespeare, and more. Special introduction by the Earl of Birkenhead. In the publisher's half morocco with cloth boards. With the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart indeed, with mild shelf wear. Dust wrappers with notable dusting and moderate edge wear. Short closed tear to Vol I front panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with light spotting to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Good.