Author: William Richard Fisher
Title: The Forest of Essex: Its History, Laws, Administration and Ancient Customs, and the Wild Deer Which Lived in It
Description: London, Butterworths, 1887. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this fascinating historical work exploring the Forest of Essex, with coloured maps. First edition. Bound in a quarter crushed morocco, with green cloth boards. Illustrated throughout, including a facsimile frontispiece, seven coloured maps and one plate of Forest marks. Collated, complete. Containing the general history, laws and courts, wood rights and wild deer of the Forest of Essex, a royal forest that existed from around 1100 and was disestablished in the 13th century. Written by William Richard Fisher, an English barrister, naturalist and author.  Bound in a quarter crushed morocco with green cloth boards. Externally, back strip has had adhesive reinforcements in areas where it was coming away from the spine. With rubbing and chips to the leather. Faded and scuffed bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to the endpapers. Good Only . Ill.: Not Stated. Good Only .

Keywords: The Forest of Essex Illustrated William Richard Fisher History Illustrated Not Stated


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