Walford's County Families of The United Kingdom by Anon - 1918

London - Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co., 1918 Book. Fair. Hardcover. A scarce 1918 edition of Walford's County Families. Partly a social register, and partly something of a Who's Who , these works, initially under the editorship of Edward Walford, made for an exhaustive guide to the British upper classes and landed gentry during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Contains numerous advertisments to the front and rear of the guide. Condition: In decorative cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally, the backstrip is repaired with tape and there is significant wear and tenderness to the joints and hinges, as well as wear to backstrip. There is also some wear and bumping to extremities and slight marking to boards. Internally, the pages are generally firmly bound, although the binding is somewhat tender in places, and the pages are largely bright and clean, aside from the usual foxing to endpages and the odd spot. There is an inkstamp to pastedown. Overall: FAIR.