Isbn: 9780902152229 - edmund rack's survey of somerset (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Map present in rear; 4to 11" - 13" ; 418 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In fine, smart pictorial boards, with coloured head of Rack over map to front with green top and tail borders and white titles. The boards are very secure, even and clean and the edges and spine ends are firm; with tiny nick to front tail edge. The illustrated end papers with numerical key are clean. A folded, tidy coloured map is in a plastic pouch and attached to rear paste down. The text block is in fine condition with very tightly bound pages, which are straight and unblemished. With black and white drawings, and colour frontispiece. No dedications etc. Without jacket. Very heavy. Please contact us for cost of postage.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in good condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is critical to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. Map is present in book. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> EDMUND RACK'S Survey of Somerset is a work of special importance. It provides an eyewitness record of the county in the later 18th century and is remarkable both for the breadth of its coverage and the vividness of its detail. Rack undertook his survey in support of Revd John Collinson's proposed three-volume history of the county, and from 1781 until his death six years later he travelled hundreds of miles to visit and describe the parishes of Somerset. Rack speaks to us from a time when Somerset's towns and villages had not yet been overtaken by the economic crisis that awaited them at the end of the century, and when the physical transformations of the Victorian period lay at an even greater distance. He brought to his researches an able and enquiring mind, and as Secretary of the Bath and West of England Society was particularly alert to any signs of Somerset's agricultural improvement and economic condition. Perhaps as he made his way down Somerset's muddy lanes to yet an.…

Hard covers, no dust jacket. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st edition thus. Scarcely used. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.