First impression of the true edition. Illustrated with black and white plates and engravings including folding illustration. ***Very good in blind-decorative embossed green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decorative rules to spine. Black front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners of boards slightly rubbed. No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***Extensive Lxxiv prelim-pages including president's address plus 231 pages including general index by E. W. Young to rear. 216 mm x 144 mm. ***Anniversary Address of the President; Notes on Excavations at Dorchester on the Site of the Roman Defences by Captain J. E. Ackland F.S.A., Some Old Village Jokes and Games which obtained in the Blackmore Vale in the Last Century, by E. A. Rawlence; a Dorset worthy, William Stone, Royalist and Divine (1615-1685), by the Rev. Canon J. M. J. Fletcher, M.A. and R.D., Early Man in Dorset, by the Rev. H. Shaen Solly, M.A.; Magic by W. Ralph G. Bond; The Aug