Add this copy of An Old Shropshire Oak to cart. $65.38, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1886 by Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.
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None. Very Good Indeed. The first edition of the first two volumes of John Wood Warter's work on his native county Shropshire. The first edition of this work. Incomplete in two volumes out of a total of four volumes. Volumes two and three were published in 1891. This work is a collection of the history of Shropshire, of which the author was a native of. Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands in England. Written by John Wood Warter, published after his death. Warter was a divine and antiquary. Edited by Richard Garnett. Garnett was a librarian, scholar, and biographer. Bookplate to the front pastedowns, 'Mountgarret'. Mountgarret is a Viscount title in the Peerage of Ireland. At the time of the publication of this work, the title was with Henry Edmund Butler, the fourteenth Viscount Mountgarret. His ink inscription to the half-titles to a Mary E. Butler, his daughter from his first marriage. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. A couple of light marks to the boards. Bookplate to the front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only a couple of spots to the first and last few pages. Prior owner's ink inscription to the half-titles. Very Good Indeed.