John Doran - Memories of Our Great Towns with Anecdotic Gleanings Concerning Their Worthies and Their Oddities

London, Chatto and Windus, 1882. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated account of British towns where the 'British Association for the Advancement of Science' held their meetings. The new edition. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and thirty-seven monochrome illustrations including vignettes and plates. Collated, complete. John Doran was a renowned English editor and author. This work provides descriptions of the towns selected for the annual meetings of the 'British Association for the Advancement of Science', including Doncaster, Cambridge, Liverpool and Edinburgh, including descriptions of important buildings. In the publisher's original decorative cloth.  In the publisher's original decorative cloth. Externally very smart with only slight bumping to the extremities and a small closed tear to the head and tail of the spine. Offsetting to the endpapers with an ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with occasional light spotting, heavier to the front. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None stated. Very Good Indeed .

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