Arts, Crafts & Pastimes

West Sussex Parish Maps, very numerous colour illustrations of the complete maps and of details from the maps, appendices giving detailed parish bibliographies, details of where the maps now are and details of the projects undertaken to make them, index, xvi & 304 pp, decorated pictorial boards (no d/w, but there is no evidence there ever was one), very slight rubbing to corners of covers, otherwise in very good condition, West Sussex County Council 2006

31.4 x 27.3 cm, 2280g, ISBN 0 86260 564 4

A real doorstop of a book, which must have cost a fortune to produce (so that’s why my Council Tax is so high!).  See the description (below) from the book’s rear cover.

The websites of West Sussex County Council and History Press (which marketed the book for the Council) make no mention of the book at all.  We take it this means the book is now out of print, and in view of its size and lavish production standards, it is almost inconceivable that it would ever be reprinted.