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For the Corporation of Preston at the Guardian Press, Fishergate, 1938 xv [1], 503 p. 290 x 230 Bound in clean blue buckram, with bright, gilt title lettering to front board and spine, this 1938 First Edition is VG in good wrapper. Top edges gilt. Heraldic design in gilt to front panel, of sheep with sword and flag, with Foreword by Alderman William Lucas, Introduction by H.E. Nutter, Preface by author, 25 Chapters, 200 illustrations, including charts and plans and Index. Bevelled boards, clean end-papers, wrapper complete and un-clipped, but with some small nicks and closed tears and overall slightly grubby from handling; front panel of wrapper has odd small red spots. Published by Corporation of Preston and priced at originally one guinea, in 1938, this is a scholarly illustrated book published to mark 100 years in which the navigation was owned by Corporation Preston 1837 Ribble Navigation Improvement Company that confined the channel of the Ribble within stone embankment and deepened the channel…
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Preston Corporation, 1938, 4to, pp. xv, 503, profusely illustrated. A superb copy in a fine dust jacket. Virtually as new. A substantial and impressive publication covering the history of the navigation, technical, economic and financial, from early times up to 1937. May require extra postage or to be sent by courier, especially abroad.
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