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Sparrow, Arthur & Ebblewhite, Ernest Arthur (editor)
The History of Church Preen in the County of Salop [Shropshire]
Publisher: Privately Printed, London;
Date of Publication: 1898
Stock Code: 10089
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. x, 144. 14 illustrations as called for, including vignette to cover, the author’s bookplate in colour and large folding map of the district with the parish marked in red. Original red cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt vignette to upper cover and fillet in blind to boards. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Spine lightly sunned, and bumped with wear at head. Upper board damp-stained in patches, lower board partially sunned; corners bruised with wear. Free endpapers toned as usual otherwise contents clean and crisp; no annotation or inscriptions. Parish history of Church Preen in Salop, now known as Shropshire. Prepared for publication by the author’s friend Ernest Ebblewhite. Posthumously published in the year that Arthur Sparrow died. Scarce. £150.00