9780903253024 - Watermills & Windmills: A Historical Survey of Their Rise, Decline and Fall as Portrayed by Those of Kent von Coles-Finch, William (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some light edge wear/small nicks to fore edges. Light toning to the page ends.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Good DJ with some tears and is price clipped.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reissue of the original 1933 publication. 336pp, with black and white illustrations. Deep blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine. 8vo. Cloth a little dusty, gently rounded at corners and spine ends. Hint of shadowing on text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Some newspaper clipping relating to the later fate of some of the mills loosely laid in. When Watermills and Windmills was first published in 1933, most Kentish mills were already in a state of decline, and since them even more have disappeared. Int he early part of the 20th century, William Coles Finch spent many years wandering around the Kentish countryside, accumulating information, interviewing old miller folk and gather together a unique collection of prints and photographs. The Kentish mills were a thing of beauty, as well as functional, dotted over the landscape - this is Finch's unique record of them before the decline that came later.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Likely a later reprint of the 1933 original edition. 336pp. Blue cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends. Text block edges tanning, affecting page margins, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges including spine ends, not price clipped.   When Watermills and Windmills was first published in 1933, most Kentish mills were already in a state of decline, and since them even more have disappeared. Int he early part of the 20th century, William Coles Finch spent many years wandering around the Kentish countryside, accumulating information, interviewing old miller folk and gather together a unique collection of prints and photographs. The Kentish mills were a thing of beauty, as well as functional, dotted over the landscape - this is Finch's unique record of them before the decline that came later.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Black cloth binding, fine. f/piece (on recto)+336 pp.,illustrated throughout on plates ex-pagination, 8 maps also ex-pag. This would fine but for edge-tanning throughout, unclipped jacket has top edge curling, small nick by top back spine and trace of rubbing bottom spine, otherwise clean and unworn. First published in 1933 this is described as a 'New Impression'. 18 cm x 24 cm.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good Plus. New Impression. 336 pages. The standard work on mills in Kent. Illustrated. Weighty volume with inscription on front endpaper.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Watermills and windmills, a historical survey of their rise, decline and fall as portrayed by those of Kent. 336pp illustrated in sepia. Reprint of the edition first published in 1933.

New Impression, Hardback, black bds., gold titles, 180 x 250 mm. 1.4 kg. (extra postage), illustrated throughout with photographs and Maps of Kent, original, pictorial, unclipped dw., light edge wear, VGVG+ copy.