For sale by order of the trustees of the will. Hampstead Heath. The well-known Freehold Estate of the late Sir Spencer Wells, Bart., a perfect Country Seat within five miles of Charing Cross. [...] known as Golder's Hill.

Two unbound bifoliums stapled together. Eight pages, on four leaves each roughly seventeen inches by eleven wide. A corrected proof, stamped at head of first page 'PROOF NO.' A frail survival of a significant document in London topographical history. Aged and worn, with several closed tears. A few manuscript emendations, notes and additions in different hands. For example, concerning a right of way, 'Messrs. Debenham can ascertain this from Mr. Pinder Simpson 20 Old Burlington St. W. the Collector'. 'CB', who comments on another note, 'Is this wanted?', can be identified from another note: 'I have <?> these Part[icu]lars. | C. Bramley | 13 Old Square | May 24th. 1898'. Sir Thomas Spencer Wells (1818-97) was surgeon to the queen's household. According to the Victoria County History of Middlesex, Golders Hill House was built between 1754 and 1796 and was enlarged for Wells in 1875 to the designs of E. F. Clarke. It was acquired by the London County Council in 1898. After its destruction during the Second World War, the grounds were preserved as Golders Hill Park.