A Gateway of Empire

456pp, numerous black and white photographic plates and maps. Blue cloth-covered boards; red titles on spine; 'map' endpapers. 8vo. . Lightly rubbed corners and spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine and edges sun-faded, has shelf wear, small closed tears, minor loss, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. A comprehensive survey of British Imperial development from the local angle of Bristol, a city which has been more closely and continuously bound up with it than any outside London, and a city which was for centuries the second port in the kingdom.