The Parish Chest: A Study of the Records of Parochial Administration in England

Third edition, with corrections and revisions.  xiv, 346pp, with black and white plate illustrations.  Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little pushed in at spine ends, with a couple of minor indentations on panels.  Text block edges have traces of dustiness.  Internally there's a small previous owner's name neatly inked on the rear paste down else neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original matte dust wrapper, a little shelf worn and toned and gently bumped on extreme edges. A  study of parochial administration and records in England first published in 1946.  Exhaustive yet readable, scholarly and at times humorous - opening up and illuminating lines of research for historians and genealogists.