{"product_id":"peeps-at-the-past-or-rambles-among-norfolk-antiquities-mark-knights-limited-edition-1892-original-drawing","title":"Peeps at the Past; or, Rambles Among Norfolk Antiquities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKNIGHTS, Mark. Peeps at the Past; or, Rambles Among Norfolk Antiquities. \u003c\/strong\u003eLondon: Jarrold and Sons, 1892. First edition, limited to 60 copies, out of which this is number 27. With all plates present behind tissue guards (one tissue guard missing, the one protecting the p.44 plate).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary quarter-leather binding with marbled paper sides and leather label with gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, fore edge roughly cut. The binding is a little worn and stained in places externally, particularly to extremities, there is foxing to the closed text block, prelims and sporadically throughout, particularly to tissue guards, and bookplate to front pastedown. A very clean copy otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLaid into this copy are two items of interest: a pencil sketch, depicting Little Snoring Church in Norfolk, and an accompanying autograph letter, in which the correspondent (unfortunately we cannot make his name from his signature) explains that he made the drawing himself in 1860 (so a few decades before the publishing of this book), noting that it recorded the church \"perfectly truthfully\" before restoration, and remarking on the difference between his sketch and the corresponding printed illustration in this volume — probably drawn after the building's Victorian restoration. The letter is addressed to Henry Read Culley, Esq (Norfolk County Coroner), listed in the list of subscribers at the front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bookplate is that of R. P. Peter Edmund Boyle Harris, a priest of the Archdiocese of Westminster, a later owner unconnected to the earlier correspondence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful edition with a fantastic letter and original drawing accompanying it. Local Interest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sancho's Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54402806743379,"sku":null,"price":165.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/5403\/5283\/files\/1892-Peeps-at-the-Past-Rambles-Norfolk-Antiquities-MARK-KNIGHTS-1st-Ed-Sketch_1.webp?v=1784989008","url":"https:\/\/sanchosrarebooks.co.uk\/products\/peeps-at-the-past-or-rambles-among-norfolk-antiquities-mark-knights-limited-edition-1892-original-drawing","provider":"Sancho's Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}