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    Reference 3452 (1717)
    Category Miscellaneous
    Author Balch,H.E.
    Title WOOKEY HOLE, ITS CAVES AND CAVE DWELLERS. With an Introduction by Professor Boyd Dawkins. Period Restoration and numerous Drawings by John Hassall, R.I. Cave Photographs and Diagrams by J.H. Savory.
    Publishing Information Oxford: Humphrey Milford at the University Press, 1914
    Description 1st Edition: SIGNED Presentation Copy. FULL TITLE: WOOKEY HOLE 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. xiv, 268 pages., photographic frontispiece, 35 plates including coloured maps, 55 illustrations throughout the text. Bound in the publisher's original covers in dust jacket miraculously present. Majority of dustjacket present but missing pieces on spine which has been attached very neatly to a heavier brown paper. A very good copy of this expensive edition, printed for subscribers. Delightful presentation plate verso front cover, bookplate on front end paper. Newspaper clipping laid in commemorating the Freedom of the City of Wells to H.E. Balch.
    Price £275.00
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