The Acre-Ocracy of England: A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards with their possessions and incomes arranged under their various counties also their colleges and clubs culled from the modern domesday book
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1876. Very Good-. Item #27372
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1876. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards; xii,[2],220pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities, smallish square white stain mid-spine as well as faint old manuscript spine titling, contemporary ownership signature to front cover and bookseller ticket to front pastedown, endpapers toned, front hinge cracked, else a Good to Very Good, still quite attractive copy in charming publisher's binding.
A revealing record of land-rich English subjects, from Lord Stafford with more than 10,000 acres, to Major Spitty, who barely makes the cut with a piddling 3,029.
Price: $50.00