Despite a buoyant initial print run, and although later issues are ubiquitous, this true first edition of a charming work by a local worthy has become scarce …

Octavo hardback, around 4.5 inches by more than seven tall, retains its original antique spot marble boards. Upper board detached but present. Note wear to the back-strip protecting the (intact) spine.

Provenance: as shown in photos [below] and from library stamps within …

The work’s fuller title: Ludgate Hill Past and Present — A Narrative Concerning the People, Places, Legends and Changes of the Great London Highway.

First edition first impression published by H & L Dove, Legate Hill, (London), undated (but c 1881).

Although interior condition is overall good, because this original letterpress book is more than 140-years-old, it displays minor signs of use and age — usual discolouration to old paper — consistent with a printed object of this era. All 130 pp main text are complete √ and otherwise correct.

¶ Sir William Purdie Treloar, 1st Baronet, (1843-1923); haberdasher and author who (1889–1900) served as Sheriff of London. ¶

⁂This first edition — published by H & L Dove — is not in Wolrdcat / OCLC which only admits a subsequent printing (published by Griffith & Farran, London) preceding Hazell’s more common 1892 reprint. Your own independent search should verify that this is currently the only copy of the true first edition available online.⁂

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