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HAMILTON JENKIN**, A. K: : NEWS FROM CORNWALL - With a Memoir of WILLIAM JENKIN [1738-1820]

LONDON.WESTWAY BOOKS,1951.

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UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.VG++.No owner inscrptn,minus dw/dj.Generally bright and clean,publisher's original, green cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,minimally sporadically foxed/ spotted plain white endpapers.Top+fore- edges very lightly aged,generally clean and minimally,sporadically foxed/spotted; contents bright,tight and clean also.UK, 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,iii-xipp+2- 202pp [paginated] includes title page,b/w illus frntis (Trewirgie in 1820),contents list/table,illustrations list/table, William Jenkin memoir (1738-1820),12 chapters,6 contemporary b/w illus and 2pp blanks to rear. William Jenkin,of Redruth was an ancestor of the author A.K. Hamilton Jenkin and was a 'notable figure in the mining world of Cornwall.' A selection of letters, correspondence from author's great-great-grandfather,written during the last thirty years of his life.They illustrate the character of the man,and many curious and out-of-the-way facts to our knowledge of a long-vanished Cornwall,and lastly showing how events of the day,both national and international impinged upon life in this then remote although commercially important corner of Britain. Since April 2013,again March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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