Peter Wolfers

A treatise on The High Peak Mineral Customs and Mineral Courts Act, 1851, Analytically and Practically Arranged. Embracing, Firstly: The Mineral Customs Articles and duties of the king's field, and certain parts of the Hundred of the High Peak, in the County of Derby. Secondly: The provisions contained in such Act for the better administration of justice in the Barmote Court of such district. And Thirdly: The Practice and Procedures of such Barmote Courts.The Treatise is written by Thomas Tipping, a barrister from the Middle Temple.The binding is stable but has lost some of the paper on the cloth to the spine. The boards are dirty and worn. The pages are clean with a little foxing on the first few and last few pages.

This is No251 of 500 copies of Pansies privately printed by D H Lawrence in June 1929. It is signed by the author. Octavo, 125 pages untrimmed. In good condition - however there is an insect mark to pages 8 and 9 (see picture). Bound in cream paper with black and red lettering to spine. Original glassine dustjacket which has a tare to the front edge and some small loss to the head and tail of the spine (see pictures).

A copy of What is Life? Pubished by Cambridge University Press. Gift inscripition on the flyleaf, and orginal bookseller's label (Parker & Son Ltd, 27 Broad Street, Oxford) on the inside front cover. No dust cover