Author: Reginald L. Hine
Title: Hitchin Worthies: Four Centuries of English Life
Description: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this history of English life from English historian Reginald Leslie Hine, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, fifty-four black-and-white plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of biographical histories of eminent peoples who have lived or stayed in Hitchin during the last four hundred years, including: Ralph Radcliffe, Agnes Beaumont, John Hawkins, Sir Henry Bessemer, Sarah Smithson, and many others. Written by Reginald Leslie Hine, a solicitor and historian whose writings centered on the market-town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire and its environs. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Hitchin Worthies English Hine Worthies Not Stated
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Title: Hitchin Worthies: Four Centuries of English Life
Description: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this history of English life from English historian Reginald Leslie Hine, signed by the author. First edition. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, fifty-four black-and-white plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of biographical histories of eminent peoples who have lived or stayed in Hitchin during the last four hundred years, including: Ralph Radcliffe, Agnes Beaumont, John Hawkins, Sir Henry Bessemer, Sarah Smithson, and many others. Written by Reginald Leslie Hine, a solicitor and historian whose writings centered on the market-town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire and its environs. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Hitchin Worthies English Hine Worthies Not Stated
Price: GBP 40.00 = appr. US$ 57.12 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 956T72
- Book number: 956T72
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