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Spence, Philip.
Robert and Mary Spence of North Shields.
Publisher: Printed Privately, Andrew Reid & Co, Newcastle Upon Tyne;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 15734
First and only edition. Landscape quarto, pp., 112. Double photographic portrait frontispiece of the Spences, 27 plates (many of which are also double portraits), silhouettes within the text and 11 family pedigrees to 7 fold-out tables. Publishers’ light grey cloth with black titles and silhouette to upper board. Pictorial endpapers depicting silhouettes of various Spence family members. Addenda and Errata slip tipped-in to second front endpaper. A slightly shaken copy with cover cloth lightly rubbed with wear to corners and head and tail of spine; silhouette a little scuffed. Internally clean. A comprehensive history and genealogy of the influential Quaker family and their connection with artist Myles Birket Foster. Rare, Jisc/COPAC locates no copies in UK institutional libraries. £200.00