PLYMOUTH: A NEW HISTORY - 1603 to the Present Day. [VOL II.]

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be an export issue,which usually precede the UK's 1st issue.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour scenic,aerial photographic illustrated upper wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corner - no nicks or tears present - spine/backstrip lightly sunned /faded,as usual/normal.Top edge lightly aged with some sporadic foxing/spotting,fore-edges though, bright and clean and much less affected with same; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Publisher's bright,clean,unmarked,original tan/brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-239pp [paginated] includes 11 chapters,an envoi,28 b/w contemporary illus/photographs,11 b/w maps+figures all throughout the text and the book,appendices(2),sources+references, and an index; plus [unpaginated] title page,separate contents+illus lists/tables.
This is far more than just a record of events: of course it covers such well-known material as the Civil War sieges and the 1941 blitzes,but it also looks at the social and economic forces behind the city's growth and development.Here are all the contradictions of a puritan town harbouring pirates and swarming with seamen's beerhouses; the divisions which led to the formation of political parties; the social elegance of the upper classes and the scramble to make money from prize cargoes.The changing role of the naval dockyard is traced,as is the progress of the Industrial Revolution which made of the Three Towns one of the first 'urban sprawls'; here High Church battled with Low Church,steam trams with horse buses,picture houses with theatres,and Plymouth Argyle's supporters with its management.
Mr Gill knows his subject as only a native can; in addition,his research in national as well as local archives has produced much new material, illustrated here with specially drawn maps and rare photographs. The result is a lively and wide-ranging history whose appeal will certainly not be confined to the south-west. [Died Plymouth November 24th,2004 aged 88 years.]
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