Author: Edith M. Hunt; David Perman
Title: The History of Ware
Description: Hertford, Stephen Austin and Sons, Ltd. 1986. Cloth. A lovely and copiously illustrated copy of Edith M. Hunt's authoritative history of the small town of Ware, in Hertfordshire, England. First published in 1946, this work was the first and only comprehensive history of the small town of Ware, with particular notice given to the town's prosperity during the medieval period, and its importance as a posting and coaching town. Moreover, this work also provides a fascinating and vivid account of Ware's people, from the gentry and lords to the criminals and rouges. This work features a fascinating biography of the author by David Perman, the secretary of the 'Ware Museum Trust&apos. Complete with the original unclipped dustwrapper. With charming pictorial endpapers depicting a sketched map of Ware. Collated, complete with thirty pages of black and white plates to the rear of the text, a folding map of the town, and a coloured frontispiece plate from a watercolor by May Hammond. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally lovely. Dustwrapper, lovely with only slight fading to spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Unnamed. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Hunt History Perman Hammond History Folding Maps Unnamed


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