The Fire Brigade Handbook: A Manual of the Organisation and Equipment of Fire Brigades for the Use of Volunteer Firemen and Others
[xii], xiv, 244, [22]pp. In brown cloth-covered boards, decorated with blind toolwork and gilt lettering front and spine. All edges gilt. 8vo. Front panel detached, backstrip cracked and fraying with some loss, rubbed and worn. Internally neat, clean and bright, with the text block tight, barring some occasional pencil underlining of text. A scarce and early book on fire-fighting by James Compton Merryweather of the fine engine manufacturing company, Merryweather and Sons.
