Third edition. viii, 124pp, xvi. In red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front panel. Decorated endpapers. 8vo. Cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends, spine slightly sunned. Text block edges a tad darkened. Stamp of the Baltimore Equitable Society on the front free endpaper and title page, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A history of the evolution of fire brigades with further chapters on statutory provisions, constitutions, special powers, out of district fires and charges, water supplies and notes on the Report of the Royal Commission on Fire Brigades and Fire Prevention and the Position of Insurance Offices regarding Fire Protection and Fire Extinction.
