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A selection of our antiquarian books for sale Wookey Hole. BALCH (Herbert E.)
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Wookey Hole. BALCH (Herbert E.)

£125.00

Its Caves and Cave Dwellers. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins, Period Restorations and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I, Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory.

Photographic frontispiece, 35 plates, including coloured maps, and 55 illustrations throughout the text.

First Edition. Folio. [323 x 255 x 30 mm]. xiv, 268 pp. Bound in the publisher's original blue paper covered boards, lettered and illustrated in black on the front, tan cloth spine, lettered and illustrated in black, blue endleaves, uncut edges. (Slightly faded at the head of the front cover, a little marked and bumped).
Oxford: Humphrey Milford at the University Press, 1914

A very good copy of this expensive edition, printed for subscribers. The author has signed the half-title. The Oxford University Press name on the title gives it authority, but the verso announces "Produced throughout by The Vandyck Printers, Ltd. Bristol". William George and Sons, the booksellers in Park Street, Bristol, subscribed to four copies, and this has their label. It has a neat ink inscription on the front free endleaf: "Alfred E. Smith, The Hollies, Nailsworth" [near Bristol].

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Its Caves and Cave Dwellers. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins, Period Restorations and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I, Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory.

Photographic frontispiece, 35 plates, including coloured maps, and 55 illustrations throughout the text.

First Edition. Folio. [323 x 255 x 30 mm]. xiv, 268 pp. Bound in the publisher's original blue paper covered boards, lettered and illustrated in black on the front, tan cloth spine, lettered and illustrated in black, blue endleaves, uncut edges. (Slightly faded at the head of the front cover, a little marked and bumped).
Oxford: Humphrey Milford at the University Press, 1914

A very good copy of this expensive edition, printed for subscribers. The author has signed the half-title. The Oxford University Press name on the title gives it authority, but the verso announces "Produced throughout by The Vandyck Printers, Ltd. Bristol". William George and Sons, the booksellers in Park Street, Bristol, subscribed to four copies, and this has their label. It has a neat ink inscription on the front free endleaf: "Alfred E. Smith, The Hollies, Nailsworth" [near Bristol].

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Its Caves and Cave Dwellers. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins, Period Restorations and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I, Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory.

Photographic frontispiece, 35 plates, including coloured maps, and 55 illustrations throughout the text.

First Edition. Folio. [323 x 255 x 30 mm]. xiv, 268 pp. Bound in the publisher's original blue paper covered boards, lettered and illustrated in black on the front, tan cloth spine, lettered and illustrated in black, blue endleaves, uncut edges. (Slightly faded at the head of the front cover, a little marked and bumped).
Oxford: Humphrey Milford at the University Press, 1914

A very good copy of this expensive edition, printed for subscribers. The author has signed the half-title. The Oxford University Press name on the title gives it authority, but the verso announces "Produced throughout by The Vandyck Printers, Ltd. Bristol". William George and Sons, the booksellers in Park Street, Bristol, subscribed to four copies, and this has their label. It has a neat ink inscription on the front free endleaf: "Alfred E. Smith, The Hollies, Nailsworth" [near Bristol].

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