Author: H E M J & W A J [Sir Henry Evan Murchison James and William Ashton James]:
Title: Pedigrees of the family of James of Culgarth, West Auckland, and Barrock, and their kinsfolk : Corrected as far as possible up to June 1913 [3 volumes].
Description: Exeter: William Pollard & co, 1913-1914. Privately printed for confidential and family use : three hardback volumes. 4to (32cm by 26cm), with text and numerous folding pedigrees. Uniformly bound in the original half white vellum, grey boards, gilt titling to the spines. The bindings are rubbed and dusty, and there is some light scattered foxing of the contents, but the bindings are tight and this is a good, solid set overall. Volume 1 (the main volume) is 10cm thick, and contains 40 folding pedigrees. It als has the inscription of W A James of 22 Norfolk Square (dated 2 Dec 1913). The other two volumes are supplements. The first is entitled "Extracts from the Pedigrees of James of Barrock", and 10 folding pedigrees, with amplifying text pages. This volume has the bookplate of W Ashton James, and has a few pages of manuscript additions at the back of the book. The second supplementary volume was published in 1914, and is entitled "Additions and Corrections to the Pedigrees of James of Culgarth, West Auckland and Barrock, and their kinsfolk". It contains 35 pages of text and two folding pedigrees. Bound in at the back of the second supplement is a further pedigree, of the Graham branch of the family, dated 1917. An important and extremely scarce family history monograph.

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