Author: PARRY RICHARD [ MEMBER OF THE MECHANICS INSTITUTE]
Title: A History of Kington
Description: Kington Herefordshire: Charles Humphreys, 1845. Hardcover. vii + 303pp, folding pedigree which has a repair, recently rebound in half brown leather/marbled boards gilt bands and lettering to spine. The first history of this small market town in Herefordshire, it also has the distinction of containing the first published work of famous naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace, ' An Essay on the Best Way of Conducting the Kington Mechanics' Institution. Wallace was born in 1823 and wrote this article in 1840 and was at the time a member of the Mechanics Institute as was Richard Parry the author. ; Octavo. Very Good .

Keywords: British Topography