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The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset by John Hutchins, M.A. Westminster : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons 1861-1870 Massive four volume set of the third and best edition of this monumental county history, complete with all the gorgeous engravings. Very Good : Green cloth pebbled boards and green half leather with gilt titles and decorations and five raised bands on the spines. Moderate scuffing to the joints; corners bumped through, edges rubbed. Occasional very short splits to leather at upper and lower joints. Some occasional scuffs to cloth covers. Marbled page edges and endpapers . Hinges generally good and sound; volume two hinges cracked but holding. Bindings are tight. Bookplate of Australian media mogul, collector and philanthropist James Fairfax , who owned the Stanbridge Mill estate in Dorset, to each FFE. Title pages in red and black . Some scattered light to moderate foxing, with a few instances of light staining to a page or two. Folio sized volumes measuring appx. 16 x 10 inches . Vol. 1: 1861, 722 pp. Vol. 2: 1863, 862 pp. Vol. 3:1868, 755 pp. Vol. 4: 1870, General Introduction (i-cxlvi); 534 pp.; Dissertation on Domesday Book plus Indices, etc. (i-clxiv). Loosely inserted to Vol. 2 is a portion (pp.3-14) of the Dorset County Chronicle and Somerset Gazette for Dec. 28, 1911 with an article "The Mystery of Corfe Castle: Where was Edward the Martyr Stabbed? An Historical Bombshell" by J. G. Neilson Clift. Shipping weight of 52 lbs. Shipping cost of appx. $43.00, USPS Media Rate to domestic addresses. Wessex novelist and poet Thomas Hardy owned a copy of this third edition and drew on it as a source for the stories in A Group of Noble Dames . ( Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy .)
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