Penzance: Past and Present Six volumes bound as one Hardback...

Penzance: Past and Present Six volumes bound as one Hardback, with various tipped-in letters and press-cuttings and the bookplate of J. A. D. Bridger. Volumes as follows: 1. J. T. Blight, Account of the Exploration of Subterranean Chambers at Treveneague in the Parish of St Hilary Cornwall, 1867, by J. Russell Smith, London, very scarce. 2. George Bown Millett, Penzance: Past and Present - A Lecture Delivered at the Penzance Institute on the 13th March, 1876, Beare and Son, Penzance 1876, illustrated with wood engravings. 3. George Bown Millett, Penzance: Past and Present - A Second Lecture Delivered at the Penzance Institute on the 25th March, 1878, Beare and Son, Penzance, 1880, illustrated with wood engravings. 4. George Bown Millett, Vox Lapidis - A plaint heard in Saint Mary’s Churchyard, Penzance, 1882, Beare and Sons, Penzance, 12 pages printed for private circulation, with this being no.17. Wood engravings. Very scarce. 5. Louise Courtney, Half a Century of Penzance (1825-1875), from notes by J. S. Courtney, Beare and Son, Penzance, 1878, 51 pages. Scarce. 6. Richard Edmonds, A Statistical Account of the Parish of Madron, containing the Borough of Penzance in Cornwall. A rare original article from the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society of London, 1839, first edition, 37 pages.