The Life of Jonathan Martin, Incendiary of York Minster with some account of William and Richard Martin

by Thomas Balston

$45 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition · Signed

London: MacMillan & Co., LTD, 1945. 8vo, x, 146, 2 pp. plus frontispiece and 15 plates in black and white. Original black cloth titled in gilt to backstrip; frontispiece from an engraving, with 15 black-and-white plates. Some staining and rubbing to boards, slight bumping to bottom right corner. Signed by author with a dedicatory inscription dated May 18, 1947 to front free endpaper. Very good. § First edition. A thorough and academic look at an eccentric

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