Land: Its Attractions ad Riches. By Fifty-Seven Writers.

VARIOUS, [DOWSETT, C.F., editor].

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

Price: £85.00