Antiquarian

CHAMBERS’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA

A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE

10 Volume set. Red leatherette,  gilt titles, blind stamp decorative border to boards. 

52 printed colour maps by John Bartholomew of which 26 are fold out printed one side, 22 fold-out printed both sides of a page (usually physical and political), 4 single page.

Bindings firm, occasional fraying to spine ends. Owners signature to each volume on endpaper or title page of Miss Hilda Woodhead, headmistress of Ware Grammar School, Hertfordshire, now Presdales, from 1931 to 1956.