DELL (ed.) Richard F.MareMagnum
The Records of Rye Corporation. A Catalogue edited by Richard F. Dell.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignettes, 23 plates and 2 large folding maps; original green cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded (but all gilt entirely legible) else a near fine copy. With a pictorial bookplate on front free endpaper. Categorisation includes: assemblies, hundreds and sessions, oaths political and religious, oaths of office, registration and deposit, coroner, court of record, general instruments, process, correspondence, government circulars and returns, customs and precedents, cinque ports, account, receipts, vouchers and payments, special accounts with vouchers, borough rates, taxation, musters and militia, prisons, water supply, commissioners of sewers, harbour and maritime records, borough council, charities, corporation properties, maps and plans, parish and church properties, transferred records, civil and parish records, printed books, acts of parliament, fragments of records and seals. Extremely scarce in any condition.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB204,72 €
