[LIBRARY HISTORY] COMMANS, J.E. (d. 1920)

Manuscript book list, 1910

AN ATTRACTIVE LIBRARY CATALOGUE FROM A SOLICITOR IN EDWARDIAN BATH

28 foolscap lined leaves in a vellum wrapper, held with a brass split pin; stored in its folded state.

A very nicely produced library list, produced in April 1910 for J.E. Commans of Bath. Alongside standard sets of literature and poetry (Dickens, Scott, Chaucer, Shakespeare) we find a very good selection of technical legal works, and a smattering of science, including Darwin's Descent of Man and Origin of Species.

Commans (d. 1920) is recorded as a solicitor, and was an active member of Bath civic life, contributing to the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, becoming a director of the Bath Gas Company, and joining the Board of the Bath Royal United Hospital.

Very good condition: vellum moderately age-toned; paper very well preserved indeed.