Author: ed. A. Lindsay Kelly
Title: Kelly&Apos;S Directory of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
Description: London, Kelly's Directories Ltd. 1924 . Cloth. A 1923 edition of Kelly's Directory covering three Home Counties, each county with a folding map frontispiece. Covering Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.Kelly's Directory was a trade dictionary, listing businesses and tradespeople by town, as well as the addresses of gentry and landowners. Founded in the mid nineteenth century by Frederick Festus Kelly, it remains an important historical record for the inhabitants and trades of local areas.The eleventh edition relating to these three counties.With forty-nine leaves of publisher's advertisements to the start of the work.Each section has a folding map frontispiece. An excellent record of life in sourthern Britain during the early twentieth century. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally a trifle worn; cloth is rather discoloured, in particular to the spine, which is bumped to the head and tail. Slight loss to the cloth at the extremities. Internally, binding is tender in places, with the rear hinge particularly strained but still firm. Binding is exposed at page three of the advertisements. Pages are bright and clean. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Keywords: Kelly's Directory Berkshire Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Berkshire None


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