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London: Ernest Benn Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good and sound green cloth with gilt titles, no inscriptions. The dust jacket is rubbed to extremities otherwise very good and unclipped. Black & white frontis with a further 20 black & white plates and 6 foldout colour maps, all in good order. Provides a fascinating account of this corporate undertaking. "The book delves into the character and work of successive Governors who controlled the Gas Light and Coke Company from its inception in 1812 to its nationalization in 1949"; Black & white plates and colour maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages .

Paperback. Good.

London: Ernest Benn, 1949. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 428pp. Frontispiece, plates, 6 folding coloured maps. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Light foxing to the edges of the text block, bookplate and ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition.

London: A & C Black. This is a Fine Copy in a Fine Dust-Jacket.Not price clipped.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.Clean tight copy with NO foxing.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness.Fascinating history on what was once the largest Gas Company in the world.Lovely copy for the collector.Thick 8vo 428pp Reprint of 1949 Edition [1992] . Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 1992.

Ernest Benn, London. 1949. . 8vo, 428pp, with black and white illustrations including portrait frontispiece and many fold-out colour plans. A good hardback copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Foxed fore edges and light spotting to endpapers. .

A & C Black, 1992-09-03. Paperback. Like New. in x in x in. Hardcover ISBN

London: A & C Black, 1992. 1st ed. thus. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 428pp., frontis., b/w pls., fldg. maps, appends., index, Reprint of the 1949 edition. Inc. many nice fold-out illusts. & maps