Front matter
Reading edition
“Every man’s concern with the place where he lives, has something more in it than the mere amount of rates and taxes that he has to pay.”—Toulmin Smith.
LONDON: BEMROSE & SONS, 10, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS; AND DERBY. 1879.
ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL.
TO THE REV. THOMAS PRESTON NOWELL BAXTER, M.A., (LATE FELLOW OF ST. CATHARINE’S COLL., CAMBRIDGE.) RECTOR OF HAWERBY, AND RURAL DEAN, WHO FIRST SUGGESTED THE WRITING OF THIS LITTLE HAND-BOOK, THESE PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.

