BERKSHIRE. NOBLE (Percy). Park Place, Berkshire. A Short History of the Place and an Account of the Owners and their Guests.1905

London: For Private Circulation ony, F. Calder Turner, First edition, 4to (243 x 175 mm), [14], 192pp., [45] leaves of plates, presentation inscription from the author, orig. white cloth, lettered in gilt, slightly soiled. An account of an eighteenth-century house near Reading, much altered and "improved" until the father of the author decided to demolish it with an undistinguished French nineteenth-century chateau. Provenance: From the library of Josceline Grove, with bookplate and their typed catalogue description pasted to front endpapers.