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Dolling, Robert R.
Ten Years in a Portsmouth Slum.
Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1896
Stock Code: 12059
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 272, [2]. 18 monochrome photographic plates including portrait frontispiece of the author with facsimile signature below, with tissue guard. Publishers’ finely reeded navy blue cloth with bevelled boards, gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial to upper board; top edge gilt. Binding a little worn at spine tips and corners. Front hinge cracked but holding; first two gatherings starting to come loose due to broken stitching. Contemporary gift inscription in ink to verso of front free end-paper dated 1897. Ownership inscription in a different hand to half-title. A good copy. Account of the work of the Winchester College Mission by the Priest-in-Charge at St Agatha’s, Landport, who here records the conditions in which the residents were living and the aid the church was able to offer. Father Dolling (1851-1902) was an Irish Anglo-Catholic priest in the district. £45.00