Mansions and Merchants of Poole and Dorset, Vol. 1

HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1976* Publisher: Poole Historical Trust.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and decorative gilt title to face. No bumps or rubs, top & bottom edge faded and boards somewhat damp-stained and marked. ACC* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £4.95. Some considerable shelf wear to edge and to head & tail of spine. Some tears, creases and chips. Spine and edges faded. Interior, particularly at rear, damp stained. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured, printed end papers showing map of Dorset, coloured flags and ships. Clean & tight with only minor reading wear but edges and margins badly damp stained. Top edge somewhat dusty. ACC* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, with b/w prints, maps and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. vi pp. index at rear.* Description: In this book, the authors have told the stories of some of the merchants who were Poole people or men who came from Dorset, Hampshire or Somerset. Trading out of the port of Poole in their small sailing ships, they established a successful commerce with the European ports, The North American colonies and, more importantly and lastingly in the fisheries of Newfoundland. This trading lasted from Elizabethan times up until the middle of the nineteenth century. Poole?s share of this trade varied from decade to decade but, in the more prosperous period starting in the late 1700?s and lasting until about 1830, Poole had the lion?s share of the Newfoundland trade of the ?Western Adventurers?. This volume covers the family history, the commercial interests, the newly built halls and mansions and the various epitaphs remaining to champion these old traders and entrepreneurs.* An ACCEPTABLE damp stained copy of the 1st. edition, suitable for reference, with tatty but essentially complete jacket.*