The Claygate Book: A History of a Surrey Village (Signed)

184pp with many black and white illustrations in text. In bright red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles front and spine. 4to. Very gently discoloured at cloth edges. Top edge lightly dust marked. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A detailed history of the Surrey village of Claygate, with drawings, plans, prints and photographs, covering approximately the last 950 years. Two sides of typescript containing Harry Ashton's notes and recollections of living in Claygate loosely laid in. Ashton was one of the contributors to Peeble's History of Claygate.