Buy this book on-line Various contribs: : DOIDGE'S WESTERN COUNTIES ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL FOR 1916UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.HOYTEN & COLE,1916.
UK,12mo paper-onlay card covers,1st edn. VG.No owner inscrptn.Slightly faded, grubbed,colour,pictorial onlay boards, vertical creasing/cracking to onlay of spine/backstrip,with some minimal shelf-wear to edges and extremities.Top+fore-edges aged/darkened; contents bright,tight and generally clean.12mo,5-424pp,paginated. Colour picture presented with the annual,is missing.Pp169-72 stuck together,and where an atttempt to open them has resulted in 2, page-edge tears.Rear board's hinge cracked, broken,but still attached and in situ, albeit loosely.Profuse contemporary b/w illustrated adverts,charts,tables, photographs,stories etc.Articles mention sinking of Lusitania and the recent (then 1916) execution of Nurse Edith Cavell on Oct 12th,1915.Many tables of reference - municipal,list of carriers,courts+ judiciary,medical practitioners,retail outlets etc.,plus stories of local interest.
An almanac for Devon and the west of England,reflecting life at the end of the first 2 years of WW1.
Fascinating,for the picture of social history it reveals.
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