Village Records.
£25.00
Publisher
Macmillan and Co Ltd.
Place
London
Date
1962
Synopsis
With a foreword by dr w. g. hoskins.
Item Description
FIRST EDITION. 4to. 10 x 7.5 inches. xvi + 208 pp. Bound in original salmon cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has minor edge wear. A little foxing of fore edge, but otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white and by 11 whole page text figures, both including facsimiles and maps and by tables in texts. The classic basic guide to local history sources using the Midland village of Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire as a case study. A very well illustrated survey of local history sources from Saxon charters through manorial records, inventories, tax records, enclosure awards and maps to turnpike documents and commercial directories. Each of the fifteen documents selected as examples is described, reproduced, transcribed, and translated where necessary, with a comprehensive survey of county catalogues and handlists for the rest of England and Wales. A very good copy of the first edition of a work that has stood the test of time
[Stock No. 28637]
