|
WINGFIELD-STRATFORD Esme
The Squire and his Relations. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, gilt back, upper hinge tender (but binding wholly sound), a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper.
|
|
|
JENKINSON W.
London Churches before the Great Fire. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
4to., First Edition, with 20 fine plates; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled elsea very good, clean copy. Detailed standard study, particularly valuable for its illustrations (which major on churches since vanished). Indexes of churches and authors in addition to a general index. EXTREMELY SCARCE
|
|
|
YARWOOD Doreen
The English Home. A Thousand Years of Furnishing and Decoration. [Second Edition].
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 32 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at head of backstrip to front and rear panels. Nice copy of a standard reference first published in 1956.
|
|
|
NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB
The New English English Art Club Exhibitors 1885-2001. FINE SET
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine set. Includes over 8,000 artists who exhibited at the Club's annual exhibitions.
|
|
|
BETJEMAN John
Collins Guide to English Parish Churches including the Isle of Man. Edited [and with an Introduction] by John Betjeman. [Illustrated by John Piper]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 66 plates on 64, numerous illustrations by John Piper in the text and plans by Zena Flax; black cloth, gilt back, else a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss at upper edge of panels and backstrip. With bookplate on front paste-down. A classic compendium which proved seminal in the re-establishment of interest in the study of ecclesiology. The dustwrapper was designed and illustrated by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis of 'New Naturalist' fame. Gammond 58B3a; Peterson A25a; Stapleton, c.64
|
|
|
VILLIERS George
English Reprints. George Villiers: The Rehearsal; George Gascoigne: The Steel Glas; John Earle: Micro-Cosmographie.
3 works in 1 vol., sm. 8vo., with title in red and black, small neat signature on half-title; original green cloth, sides with Oxford frame in blind, gilt back, red edges, chocolate endpapers, very neatly recased, a very good, clean copy. George Villiers: The Rehearsal; George Gascoigne: The Steel Glas; John Earle: Micro-Cosmographie. SCARCE
|
|
|
RENDEL Guy
An English Tapestry. Two English Families: Rendel and Rylands. How they worked in Peace and how they went to War 1750-2001. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
|
|
|
BURTON Peter
The English Angel. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece ands numerous fine photographs throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, silver endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
|
|
|
CECIL David
The English Poets. [Britain in Pictures series. Second Edition]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 13 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper. Second edition of the first BIP title. Published a year after the first edition. Carney 1.
|
|
|
MACAULAY Rose
Life among the English. [Britain in Pictures series].
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 26 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed at backstrip. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 31.
|
|
|
BRITISH LIBRARY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 4. English Benedictine Libraries: the Shorter Catalogues. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 4. VERY SCARCE
|
|
|
MARSH] [Catherine
English Hearts and English Hands; or, The Railway and the Trenches. Thirty-Eighth Thousand. [Preface by Frederick Chalmers]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Thirty-Eighth Thousand, with a frontispiece and plates; some light age-soiling, neat contemporary inscription on frontispiece recto; original red cloth, upper board with blind frame border enclosing gilt vignette, gilt back, neatly recased with new endpapers to style, a very good, bright, firm copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Marsh's collection of topical homilies had its inception in 1853, when she went among the large contingent of railway navvies assembled in Beckenham and environs to rebuild the Crystal Place at Sydenham following the Great Exhibition of 1851. A number of the later pieces refer to the Crimean War and other contemporary events. Chalmers was sometime Rector of Beckenham. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
|
|
|
COX J. Charles
English Church Fittings, Furniture and Accessories. With an Introduction by Aymer Vallance. IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 273 half-tone plates from photographs in the text, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; decorative purple cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter very lightly creased and frayed at edges. Nice copy of a standard reference. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
|
|
|
BENINGFIELD (illus.) Gordon
Beningfield's English Farm. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and tinted illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; grey-green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
|
|
|
GOUDGE Elizabeth
The White Witch. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
|
|
|
LAMBORN E.A. Greening
The English Parish Church. Its Architecture and Antiquities. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text; original buff pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
|
|
|
WEINBAUM Martin
English Borough Charters 1307-1660.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat blind stamp on title.
|
|
|
CHAMPNEYS Arthur Charles
Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture with some Notice of similar or related Work in England, Scotland and Elsewhere.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 114 pages of plates; original green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, lower hinge starting else a very good, clean copy. A standard reference, and uncommon in this condition.
|
|
|
THORNTON Robert
Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur. Edited from Robert Thornton's MS in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral by Edmund Brock. [A New Edition, 1871]. [EETS, 1937]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of brown cloth, upper board lettered and blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. First published by EETS in 1865, with this revised text in 1871. SCARCE.
|
|
|
MEYER Peter
English Cathedrals. With a Foreword by Geoffrey Grigson. Photographs b y Martin Hurlimann. Descriptive Text by Peter Meyer. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio. First Edition, with numerous fine full-page photographs and smaller plans in the text, endpapers lightly spotted; grey tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown; a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of an elusive survey, particularly scarce in this condition.
|
|
|
WILLIAMSON J.A.
The Voyages of the Cabots and the English Discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII. 1050 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on Japanese vellum, with a folding map as frontispiece, title-vignette in blue and black, and 12 maps; original blue buckram, ivory buckram back lettered in gilt, uncut, brown silk marker, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1050 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES). Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title. The seventh publication of the Argonaut Press, printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. The title-vignette is by William Monk.
|
|
|
ANDERSON Mary D.
Misericords. Misericords. Medieval Life Woodcarving. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates on 48 and an illustration in the text; paper boards, as issued, a very good, bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. King Penguin, 72
|
|
|
HUSSEY Christopher
English Country Houses. Early Georgian 1715-1760.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 465 fine photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges. Hussey's masterly trilogy is the definitive study. This first volume was followed by 'Mid Georgian 1760-1800' (1956) and 'Late Georgian 1800-1840' (1958). Each volume is complete in itself.
|
|
|
BETJEMAN John
English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700-c.1860. Chosen by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor. With Original Lithographs by John Piper. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 12 fine full-page coloured lithographs by Piper, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth after design by Piper, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with very minor loss (nowhere affecting lettering) at extremities. Published in the series 'New Excursions into English Poetry' edited by W.J. Turner and Sheila Shannon. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Peterson A12a; Stapleton C75.
|
|
|
PARIS Henry John
English Watercolour Painters. [Britain in Pictures series]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 21 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 88.
|
|
|
PEACOCK (ed.) W.
Selected English Essays. Chosen and Arranged by W. Peacock. [Worlds Classics Edition]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., original series binding of navy blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at head of backstrip. WC 32
|
|
|
ESDAILE Katherine A.
English Church Monuments 1510 to 1840. With an Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 148 half-tone plates from photographs on 80 and very numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, blue top mildly faded else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Katharine Esdaile's study forms a sequel to Crossley's English Church Monuments (1921) and is both well-illustrated and scholarly.Fifoot, SB26.
|
|
|
ELLIS Henry
Original Letters illustrative of English History; including numerous Royal Letters. Third Series. Vol. III [this volume only]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black; attractively bound contemporary calf, sides with gilt frame border, back with three raised bands tooled in gilt, second and third compartments with brown leather labels lettered in gilt, gilt top, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, asmall tear at headband, joint lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. This volume includes letters CCLVII to CCCCIII. The frontispiece is a fine reproduction of the portrait of Henry VIII at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.. It is engraved by Cook after Holbein the Younger. SCARCE.
|
|
|
COOK G.H.
English Collegiate Churches of the Middle Ages. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, free endpapers browned; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. A standard reference. SCARCE
|
|
|
BOWEN Elizabeth
English Novelists. [Britain in Pictures series]. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Third Impression, with 8 coloured plates and 16 monochrome illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. First published in 1942. Carney 23.
|
|
|
CROSLAND T.W.H.
The English Sonnet.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; free endpapers mildly browned, signature on front free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip with paper label, uncut, a good, firm copy.
|
|
|
GRIERSON Herbert
The English Bible. [Britain in Pictures series]. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Impression, with 8 coloured plates and 21 monochrome illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down and front free endpaper; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 66.
|
|
|
MACAULAY Rose
Life among the English. [Britain in Pictures series]. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Impression, with 8 coloured plates and 26 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 31.
|
|
|
AYRTON Elisabeth
The Cookery of England. Being a Collection of Recipes from Traditional Dishes of all Kinds from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, with Notes on their Social and Culinary Background. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped, faintly browned dustwrapper. Bright copy of what is arguably Ayrton's finest work. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.
|
|
|
HAMPSON John
The English at Table. [Britain in Pictures series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 25 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 51.
|
|
|
O'BRIEN Kate
English Diaries and Journals. [Britain in Pictures series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 19 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter just a little sunned at backstrip. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 55.
|
|
|
BLIGHT J.T.
Churches of West Cornwall; with Notes of Antiquities of the District. Second Edition.
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous woodcut illustrations (by the author) in the text, title very lightly spotted; cloth, boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, black endpapers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1865, collecting a series of essays written for the Gentleman's Magazine between 1862 and 1864.
|
|
|
STEELE R.
The Earliest English Music Printing. A Description and Bibliography of English Printed Music to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY
4to., Second Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. High-quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1903.
|
|
|
GOVER J.E.B.
The Place-Names of Northamptonshire. [English Place-Name Society, Vol.
8vo., First Edition, with 6 folding maps in pocket at end; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, small pull at headband else a very good, bright, clean copy. English Place-Name Society, vol. X
|
|
|
MAWER A.
The Place-Names of Sussex. With the Assistance of J.E.B. Gover. [English Place-Name Society, Vols. VI and VII]. BRIGHT, CLEAN SET OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline in pocket at end of first volume; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt backs, backstrips sunned (but all lettering wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean set. English Place-Name Society, Vols. VI and VII. Part I: The Rapes of Chichester, Arundel and Bramber; Part II: The Rapes of Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings.
|
|
|
HORNE Jonathan
English Tin-Glazed Tiles. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; blue cloth, gilt back, pink endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
|
|
|
MASON L.
The Taste of Britain. Foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. [Revised Edition].
8vo., with numerous tinted illustrations in the text, a map and pictorial endpapers, gift inscription on front free endpaper verso; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver and red, red silk marker, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1999
|
|
|
FORSTER E. M.
The Development of English Prose between 1918 and 1939. The Fifth W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 27 April 1944. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; original brown wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good bright clean copy. Published as Glasgow University Publications No. LXIII. 1000 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A25.
|
|
|
GARDNER A .H.
Outline of English Architecture. An Account for the General Reader of its Development from Early Times to the Present Day. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous fine monochrome plates and plans in the text; orange cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very faintly sunned at backstrip. First published in 1945. A lovely copy of a scarce and important Batsford. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
|
|
|
WILLIAMS Iolo Aneurin
Early English Watercolours and some Cognate Drawings by Artists born not later than 1785. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Roy. 4to. First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and 200 monochrome plates depicting 412 images; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of a standard reference.
|
|
|
NEWMAN George
English Social Services. [Britain in Pictures series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 20 monochrome illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly spotted; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 24.
|
|
|
WALBANK (ed.) F. Alan
The English Scene in the Works of Prose-Writers since 1700. Edited and arranged by F. Alan Walbank. With a Foreword by Sir John Squire. Second Edition, revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, and coloured and monochrome plates, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; orange cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly browned dustwrapper with small loss (affecting lettering) at tail of backstrip. Revised and extended version of the original edition of 1941.
|
|
|
RACKHAM Bernard
Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to. First Edition with 99 plates; slate cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a very good bright clean copy. Firm copy of a standard reference published by the Department of Ceramics Victoria & Albert Museum. Includes a bibliography.
|
|
|
CROSSLEY F.H.
English Church Monuments, A.D. 1150-1550. An Introduction to the Study of Tombs and Effigies of the mediaeval Period.
Roy. 8vo. with a frontispiece and 375 half-tone plates from photographs and illustrations in the text free endpapers mildly browned; green cloth upper board framed and lettered in gilt and blocked in blind gilt back green top boards lightly sunned at edge The standard reference. More than twenty years were to elapse before the publication of a work dealing with monuments of the post-Reformation period Katherine Esdaile's English Church Monuments 1510-1840 appearing in the autumn of 1946.
|
|
|
BOUTELL Charles
Christian Monuments in England and Wales: an historical and descriptive Sketch of the various Classes of Sepulchral Monuments which have been in use in the Country from about the Era of the Norman Conquest to the Time of Edward the Fourth.
Roy. 8vo. Sole Edition with 9 lithographed plates and very numerous illustrations in the text some occasional light spotting; contemporary cloth blocked in blind gilt back uncut covers a little age-marked backstrip sunned and chipped at head and tail a ve Section I: stone coffins and coffin-lids devoid of effigies; Section II: semi-effigial monuments
|
|
?????????
?????PDF???
RSS feed
??
