A first edition hardcover volume titled The History of a Village Community in the Eastern Counties by the Reverend J. Denny Gedge, Vicar of Methwold. Published in Norwich by Agas H. Goose in 1893, this work serves as a local history of the Methwold area. The volume is bound in the publisher’s original cream-coloured paper-covered boards, featuring red printed decorative borders and titles on the upper board and spine. The text is accompanied by numerous illustrations described as anastatic sketches in pen and ink by the author. This specific example is an association copy, bearing a handwritten pencil inscription on the front endpaper reading With love from Sydney Gedge. Sydney Gedge, M.P., is listed in the printed List of Subscribers at the rear of the book; pencil checkmarks are present in this list next to his name and that of the noted novelist H. Rider Haggard. The book features untrimmed deckle edges throughout.
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