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Title: Kelly&Apos;S Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes
Description: London, Kelly's Directories Limited, 1951. Cloth. The seventy-seventh edition of this notorious referential work recording the titled, landed, and official classes in Great Britain for 1951. The seventy-seventh edition of this work, published in 1951, and bound in the publisher's decorative cloth with gilt detailing.This is a work of genealogy, published by Kelly's Directories. It is intended as an overview of families within Great Britain who have a 'definite position', whether those are form hereditary rank or titles conferred upon them in some other way. Contents are divided by 'Hereditary Rank-Peers', 'Titles or Orders conferred upon them by the Sovereign', 'Members of Parliament', 'From any of the higher grades of the diplomatic, legal, military, naval, or civil services of the state', 'Deputy-Lieutenants', and 'Landowners&apos.Sixty-two pages of advertisements proceeding the work, and advertisements to the endpapers and pastedowns. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding with gilt detailing to the front board. Externally, smart, with bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Light shelf wear to the boards. Internally, front hinge is slightly tender. Remaining binding is firm. A few light spots to the fore-edge, top-edge and endpapers, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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