Product Description
The very scarce first edition of this comprehensive Carless family genealogy, complete with a large folding pedigree and enhanced by Attwood"s own typed letter.
In a contemporary red cloth binding, endpapers renewed.
First edition.
llustrated with a large folding pedigree of the family of Carless, formerly of Birmingham in the county of Warwick, loosely inserted to the rear pocket.
Collated, complete.
A genealogical study of the Carless, or Carles, family, tracing the Birmingham line and related branches through parish records, wills, and pedigrees.
The notes discuss variant spellings including Carles, Carless, Careless, Carlos, and Carlis, names most famously associated with Colonel William Careless, or Carlos, who hid with Charles II in the Royal Oak after the Battle of Worcester.
Bookplates of Michael Cecil de Courcy Peele and John Thornhill to front paste down.
With a typed letter tipped-in to the front pastedown, dated January 20-21 by the author, "T.
A.
C.
A.
", explaining that Attwood had adopted the spelling "Carless" throughout, and referring to evidence from the will of R.
C.
Hill and records connected with St Martin"s Church, Birmingham.
In a contemporary cloth binding, endpapers renewed.
Externally, generally smart.
Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in minor loss to cloth.
The odd mark with slight discolouration to perimeters of boards.
Spine slightly faded.
Typed letter from the author tipped in to front free endpaper.
Slight offsetting to first blank.
Bookplates of MIchael Cecil de Courcy Peele and John Thornhill to front paste down.
The odd ink annotation correcting and adding to the large folding genealogical plate to rear.
Very Good
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