THE EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to Brynmor and Dora Jones. Red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. Illustrated map endpapers. Lacking the dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout.

Inscribed by A. G. Dickens in blue ink to the front free endpaper "To Dora and Brynmor / with love from / Geoff Dickens / May 1955". Dickens, Professor of History at the University of Hull (and later Deputy Principal, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor) is best known for his history of 'The English Reformation' (1964). This personal "character-sketch of the East Riding" (he was born in Hull) is a lesser-known early work. Sir Brynmor Jones (1903–1989), was born in North Wales and educated at University College of Wales at Bangor and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1947 he became a professor chair at University College, where he later became Dean of Science, Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became iPro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1956, Vice-Chancellor. The expanded University of Hull Library, famously presided over by the poet, Philip Larkin, was named after Jones in 1967.