The Records of the Corporation of Oswestry,

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1st ed, VG, 17 plates. In full contemporary calf (by Eyre & Spottiswoode), attractive gilt and blind edges tooling, corners rubbed. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, titles in gilt to black calf label. Internally, red marbled endpapers and text block edges, binders stamp and contemp ink signature to verso of fep, [3], (iv-vii), [1], [1], 2-272 pp, 16 pls (3 large folding). Frontis, [1], 2-42 pp, 1 pl, 1 printers device, not dated but after 1883, occasional light spotting. An uncommon printing. (COPAC shows 4 copies in the UK, none in Wales. WorldCat shows 1) Title continues: With an account of the mayors, stewards, recorders, and town clerks, by Askew Roberts. "Reprinted from the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1879-83." Leighton, politician and antiquary was deeply interested in religious education, he also helped to reorganize the school for Welsh children of both sexes which had existed in London under the auspices of the Society of Antient Britons since 1715. The Elementary Education Act of 1870 rendered superfluous its original purpose, and mainly through Leighton's initiative it was converted in 1882 into a school for the secondary education of girls of Welsh parentage at Ashford in Middlesex. See ODNB. 0