The Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 1939-1940 (57th Annual Issue)

iii, 344pp, iv-vi, plus financial year calendar.  The volume itself is not illustrated but contains several illustrated contemporary advertisements, with some two colour.  Bound in red cloth-covered boards with black lettering front and spine. Title page printed in red and black.  8vo.  Cloth is a little worn, a little rubbed and rounded at corners and ends of a sunned spine, lightly faded around edges.  Internally neat, clean and tight. The Empire Municipal Directory was a recognised work for official reference containing 'complete and authoritative lists of all the corporations, county, urban and rural district councils, with their populations, municipal undertakings, names of their adminstrative officials, etc in Great Britain, the colonies and overseas dominions and a compendium of information relative to municipal engineering and public health work and progress'.