Marrin's Bookshop

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8vo. 6.75x 4.5 inches. [viii] + 384 pp. + 32 pp. publisher's list. Illustrated by engraved frontispiece. Decorated by head and tailpiece vignettes and by initials. Bound in quarter maroon cloth, gilt, over maroon boards. Library binding and stamps. A little wear to extremities, stains on subtitle and part of lower margin missing, pp. 359-360, which also have small tear; otherwise a very good copy. Mid-Victorian guide to the towns and villages of Worcestershire, by John Noakes (1826-94), journalist, antiquary and civic dignitary.