Chelsea (British Towns and Cities series)

192pp, plate frontispiece and numerous further plate illustrations throughout. In red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (a little worn around spine). Top edge sprayed red. A few small marks on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, pictorial dust jacket (a little bumped and rubbed at edges, small scar on back cover). Dust jacket now protected in a Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. "Of all the villages that London has preserved within its extending borders, Chelsea is perhaps the most remarkable for its strong local traditions and associations which have transcended its modern context"; so writes William Gaunt in the opening of his description and history of Chelsea. 8vo