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A History of the Parish of North Meols, in the Hundred of West Derby, and County of Lancaster; With Historical and Descriptive Notices of Birkdale and Martin Mere
by Farrer, William
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- Hardcover
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Liverpool; Henry Young & Sons Ltd., 1903., 1903. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. xii, 139 pp. Portrait frontis of Rev Charles Hesketh, 3 double-page maps, photographic plate of St Cuthbert's Church, 5 armorials & Meols Hall Inscription in text plus large fold-out Pedigree of the Coudray, Aughton and Hesketh families. Book Condition: Very Good. Publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cover cloth heavily sunned, especially to spine and top portion of upper board, and lightly damp-stained. Free endpapers toned; a little light foxing and fingermarking mainly to portrait frontis otherwise a very clean copy indeed internally. No annotation or inscriptions; many leaves unopened. Scarce.
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- Keel Row Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3567
- Title
- A History of the Parish of North Meols, in the Hundred of West Derby, and County of Lancaster; With Historical and Descriptive Notices of Birkdale and Martin Mere
- Author
- Farrer, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Liverpool; Henry Young & Sons Ltd., 1903.
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Topography
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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