Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 4to; xii, [2], 203, [1] pages
Publisher: Bemrose and Sons, Limited, 1895, London

[Book #19986]

A Fine First Edition in original brown cloth, title and spine gilt embossed, little offsetting to endpapers. In the rare, Near Fine, illustrated dust-wrapper, only lightly chipped with a few closed tears. An exceptional representative of an early dust-wrapper. Laid in is a color image of William Ewart Gladstone, gratis supplement to the "Derby and Chesterfield reporter of July 8th, 1892 ;

"If any excuse be needed for the appearance of a new book on Old Derby it may be found in the fact that a certain friends of the author have, at various times, requested him to embody the substance of his lectures and writings in the handy and complete form of a volume". Covers personalities and localities in 46 illustrations, frontispiece and 3 fold-out maps