- Census of England and Wales

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1891. Cloth. A very scarce, complete collection of the 1891 British Census, bound in smart cloth by Nottingham Public Library and complete with folding maps. The United Kingdom Census 1891 recorded the total population of England, Scotland and Wales as over thirty-three million; it was the first Census to ask about the number of rooms in a household, as well as the first to allow women to undertake it, and to ask Welsh inhabitants whether they spoke Welsh.Five volumes, being: 'Preliminary Report and Tables of the Population and Houses Enumerated in England and Wales, and in the Islands in the British Seas&apos.Volume I. 'Area, Houses and Population. Administrative and Ancient Counties&apos.Volume II. 'Area, Houses and Population. Registration Areas and Sanitary Districts', illustrated with eight folding maps in colour.Volume IV. 'General Report with Summary Tables and Appendices&apos.'Islands in the British Seas: Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and Adjacent Islands&apos.A scarce original source for England's population at the close of the nineteenth century.From Nottingham Public Library; with their label to the front library binding and plates to the front pastedowns and endpapers. In a recent full cloth binding. Externally generally smart; a little bumped to the extremities and the heads and tails of the spines. One volume is in a black cloth as opposed to blue; this volume has wear to the head where the backstrip is lifting, and internally its pages are age-toned and worn at the edges. Internally, generally firmly bound; 'Islands in the British Sea' is strained noticeably to both hinges. Pages are age-toned to the edges and occasionally rather delicate, with some occasional repairs to leaves. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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