"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Land: Its Attractions ad Riches. By Fifty-Seven Writers.
London: The Land Roll Office, 1892. [Property Investments] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 910 [10]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Bookplate dated 1892 to front pastedown. Light browning and spotting to edges and preliminaries. Light rubbing to cloth. Very good. A rather desperate and highly detailed exhortation addressed to land owners and those with capital, arguing the case for holding British land as a stable, long term investment, in reaction to the loss of many fortunes to dubious overseas investments, and the general impoverishment of the countryside. Item #55504
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