Book Description

First edition. HB. Red-brown cloth, with gilt title to spine, no dustjacket. ix, 65pp. Well printed on laid paper. With 13 b&w photos and illustrations in plates and text and a pedigree of persons on patents and leases, including frontispiece (two are folding, the pedigree and photo of a petititon to Charles II). History from the granting of the first patent for a lighthouse on Hunstanton cliff (at the mouth of the Wash in Norfolk) by Charles II, to the fourth by George III, and later history. A Very Good copy. Light marks to covers, gilt bright. Some foxing and light browning to closed fore-edges and leaves at ends, but still a nice copy.
Author Calvert, E.M.
Date 1939
Binding Hardcover
Publisher Jarrold and Sons
Condition Very Good
Pages 64

Price: £36.00

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