Author: WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
Title: A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Oxford and District. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY; WITH WWII MAPS DISCLAIMER
Description: Ward Lock,, [1941]. Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with plates, and maps and plans (a number folding), small annotations on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, covers sunned else a bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. Tipped-in is the publisher's printed disclaimer slip 'owing to the Control of Maps Order we have removed from this Guide all maps and plans likely to be useful to the enemy'. The COM Order 1940 banned commercial publication of maps and plans on a scale greater than one inch to one mile and therefore of likely use to the enemy. In this edition the omissions include the plan of Oxford City normally placed as frontispiece.

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