Kelly's Directories - Kelly&Apos;S Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes for 1897

London, Kelly's Directories Limited , 1897. Cloth. An uncommon copy of the Kelly's Handbook for the year 1897. Twenty-third annual edition. Uncommon edition. A handbook including key events in the lives of the featured individuals, as well as basic genealogical details, with entries arranged alphabetically by surname and then by forename, providing give a fascinating snapshot of each person"s life as at 1897. Unlike the Kelly's Directories, the handbooks weren"t specific to regions but covered the good and great of the entire country, containing biographical information for the notable people listed therein. The first incarnation of Kelly"s Handbook was called The Upper Ten Thousand: An Alphabetical List of All Members of Noble Families was published in 1875 and was a rather exclusive publication. From 1878 this became Kelly"s Handbook of the Upper Ten Thousand. The final name-change to Kelly"s Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes came in 1880, with more emphasis on the upper classes and endured until 1973. With publisher's advertisements to the front and rear of the text. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and board edges with the odd small mark to the boards. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Light age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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