BEIN Purdy 280: Inscribed on cover of issue for 1955-56: From Eva Dugdale, 1956.

BEIN Purdy 280: Signed in ms. on cover of issue for 1956-57: Eva Dugdale.

A collection of eleven copies of The Dorset year book from 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1945-1946, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1971-1972.

On cover of all issues except that of 1971-1972: "Who's a-feär'd?".

Issues from 1922-1928 published by the Society of Dorset Men in London; later issues published by the Society of Dorset Men.

Issues from 1922-1931 published in London; issue of 1945-1946 in Weymouth; later issues in Sidcup, Kent.

A poem of Thomas Hardy's, In the evening, appears in the 1924 issue.

Includes advertising matter.

England London.