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WYMER Norman
English Country Crafts. A Survey of their Development from Early Times to the Present Day. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 146 monochrome plates on 64 and 2 illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, orange endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. In this, one of the best single-volume compilations, Wymer provides a deceptively detailed guide to over sixty traditional country crafts. The well-chosen photographs illustrate many.
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GOUDGE Elizabeth
The White Witch. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly rubbed at extremities. With dustwrapper artwork by C.H. Richard. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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COX J. Charles
English Church Fittings, Furniture and Accessories. With an Introduction by Aymer Vallance. BRIGHT, CLEAN WORKING COPY
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and 273 half-tone plates from photographs in the text; decorative purple cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers moderately age-faded (but all lettering entirely legible), a firm, clean working copy. A standard reference.
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COUPE Robert L.M.
Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English. A Descriptive Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous reproductions in the text; cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in association with the British Library.
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YARWOOD Doreen
The English Home. A Thousand Years of Furnishing and Decoration. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 32 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at upper edge of front panel. Nice copy of a standard reference first published in 1956.
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BOUNDY Wyndham S.
Bushell and Harman of Lundy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with illustrations and full-page map in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graphic accounts of Civil War coinage of the period Charles I 1642-49, together with a unique law case concerning the issue of illegal currency.
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DOUGHTY Oswald
English Lyric in the Age of Reason. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily browned at backstrip and rear panel. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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LANGLAND William
The Vision of Piers Plowman. Newly rendered into modern English by Henry W. Wells. With an Introduction by Nevill Coghill and Notes by the Translator. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, gilt back, brown top, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Printed at the Alcuin Press. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WARD Ida C.
The Phonetics of English. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with numerous illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy.
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BOND Francis
The Chancel of English Churches. The Altar, Reredos, Lentern Veil, Communion Table, Altar Rails, Houseling, Cloth, Piscina, Credence, Sedilia, Aumbrey, Sacrament House, Easter Sepulchre, Squint, etc. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and over 220 half-tone plates, line drawings and other illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front paste-down; original blue buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, a near fine copy. A STANDARD REFERENCE, AND VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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TOOLEY R. V.
English Books with Coloured Plates 1790- to 1860. A Bibliographical Account of the most important Books illustrated by English Artists in Colour Aquatint and Colour Lithography. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition thus; blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of this invaluable reference, first published in 1935 and here reissued in greatly expanded form. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Civil War Papers of King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine and Sir Thomas Fairfax. 21 July 1980. Sale code: nil. CIVIL WAR PAPERS OF CHARLES I
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The sale comprises 58 lots from the collection of Colonel Alan Gandar Dower, among the finest letters and papers from the English Civil War to have been offered for sale at auction.
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AITKEN George A.
An English Garner. Later Stuart Tracts. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes Petty's Political Arithmetic (1690) and various pieces by Defoe and Arbuthnot. A complement to Firth's earlier volume covering the years 1603-1693. See Davies 165.
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ASHLEY Maurice
The Battle of Naseby and the Fall of King Charles I. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 6 coloured plates (2 double-page), 63 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in dustwrapper.
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BROOKS F.W.
The English Naval Forces 1199-1272. With a Foreword by Professor Geoffrey Callender. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 2 plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SANFORD John Langton
Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, last few leaves lightly spotted at margins; original navy coarse-grain cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of T.B. Cornish on front paste-down, and 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 209.
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JONES G.F. Trevallyn
Saw-Pit Wharton. The Political Career from 1640 to 1691 of Philip, fourth Lord Wharton. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; red buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEVENS Christopher Claxton
18th Century English Furniture. The Norman Adams Collection. [Second, Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately published errata slip. Enlarged version of the original edition of 1983.
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INGLEBY Richard
Christopher Wood. An English Painter. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE.
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REDGRAVE Samuel
A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists. With Notices of their Lives and Work. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1878.
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BATTISCOMBE Georgina
English Picnics. [CBC Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUTCHINSON Mrs. Lucy
The Grand Quarrel. From the Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson; Mrs Alice Thornton; Ann, Lady Fanshawe; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; Anne, Lady Halkett, and the Letters of Brilliana, Lady Harley. Edited and introduced by Roger Hudson. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with plates; navy cloth, boards and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, blue top, pale blue endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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HONEY W.B.
English Glass. [Britain in Pictures series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 26 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, contemporary signature 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. Carney 99.
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WESTLAKE Ray
English and Welsh Infantry Regiments. An Illustrated Record of Service. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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KIRK Rev. John
Biographies of English Catholics in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by John Hungerford Pollen and Edwin Burton. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); handsomely bound in full dark green morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, original backstrip gilt mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM.
Victorian Church Art. Exhibition Catalogue November 1971 - January 1972. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous photographs in monochrome throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Detailed catalogue of a major and comprehensive exhibition.
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WORDSWORTH Christopher
The Old Service-Books of the English Church. [Antiquary's Books]. FIRM,CLEAN WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 37 plates in monochrome, title and fore-edges very lightly spotted, text block clean and crisp; original series binding of decorative red buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, backstrip faded and chipped at headband, joints rubbed else a good, firm working copy. Sold from an institution with its press-mark and pocket on front endpapers. With publisher's 40pp general catalogue bound in at rear. One of the scarcest titles in Methuen's excellent 'Antiquary's Books' edited by J. Charles Cox.
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SPENCE Basil
Phoenix at Coventry. The Building of a Cathedral. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 11 coloured plates on 10, 34 monochrome plates on 32, a full-page facsimile in the text and decorative endpapers; yellow cloth gilt, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter a little browned at backstrip.
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JONES Lawrence E.
The Observer's Book of Old English Churches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 coloured plates, 44 plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Observer 36. Printing code 1656.165. 'One of the better books of the series' (Marren & Carter). Marren & Carter, p.164.
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JOHNSON, ed. Barry C.
Ho, for the Great West!. and other original Papers to mark the 25th Anniversary of the English Westerners' Society. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
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TURNER Joseph Mallord William
Turner's Water-Colours at Farnley Hall. Text by Alex. J. Finberg. COMPLETE SET IN ORIGINAL PARTS WITH PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS AND FORM
6 vols., oblong 4to., First Edition thus, with 30 fine coloured landscape plates (all original captioned tissue guards present and printed in brown), some light and generally inoffensive spotting (mainly marginal); original black card wrappers, upper wrappers blocked and lettered in gold, sewed as issued, yapped edges generally lightly frayed, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean set. WITH THE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS FOR THE SERIES AND SEPARATE ORDER FORM LOOSELY INSERTED. This series of coloured reproductions of watercolours held at Farnley Hall in Yorkshire was published first in parts (as here) and then as a bound volume. COMPLETE SETS IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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JACKSON Robert
Canberra. The Operational Record. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BLUNDEN Edmund
English Villages. [Britain in Pictures series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 25 monochrome illustrations in the text, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; 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. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Carney 11.
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ANDERSON Mary D.
The Medieval Carver. With a Preface by W.G. Constable. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous plates; original brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. A standard reference by the eminent ecclesiologist.
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POWELL J.R.
Documents relating to the Civil War 1642-1648. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and illustrations in the text; original series binding of ivory buckram ruled and blocked in gilt, navy buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy. With small blind stamp on front free endpaper. NRS vol. CV.
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FIRTH C.H.
Cromwell's Army. A History of the English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. [Facsimile reissue. With a new Introduction by John Adair.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. High-quality facsimile reissue, with fresh introduction, of the third edition of 1921. ALREADY SCARCE.
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HOLE Christina
English Shrines and Sanctuaries. Illustrated by Eric King. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and 8 full-page illustrations and numerous head-pieces in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HOLE Christina
English Home-Life 1500 to 1800. Illustrated from Portraits, Paintings and Prints. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plate, 83 sepia-toned plates on 48 and 8 illustrations in the text,; original terracotta cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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CROSSLEY Fred H.
English Church Design, 1040-1540 A.D. An Introduction to the Study of Mediaeval Building. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 112 monochrome plates on 63 and several illustrations and plans in the text; red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss at headband. The publication of this work as a separate volume enabled the author to revise his earlier standard 'English Church Craftsmanship' (1941). The second edition of the latter work in 1947 provided the present volume with a thorough and complementary study.
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VALLANCE Aymer
Greater English Church Screens, being Great Roods, Screenwork and Rood-Lofts in Cathedral, Monastic & Collegiate Churches in England and Wales. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 155 monochrome plates on 100 and very numerous illustrations in the text, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. Following the publication of 'English Church Screens' (1936) dealing with parish churches, Vallance began work on this equally comprehensive and scholarly sequel. The text was virtually complete when the author died (in July 1943) and the work was completed and brought to press by Edward T Long. The two works together remain the standard reference.
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BRABANT Frederick Gaspard
The English Lakes. Illustrated by Edmund H New. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), plates, plans in the text, front endpaper map and 9 folding coloured maps, signature on half-title; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in white and blocked in gilt, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled else a bright, clean copy. With 4pp series catalogue at end.
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LOWE Joseph
The Present State of England in regard to Agriculture, Trade and Finance [1823]. [Facsimile reissue.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., brown cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Reprints of Economic Classics.
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POUCHER W.A
Over Lakeland Fells. With Photographs by the Author. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, 109 fine sepia-toned plates and 2 double-page maps in the text; pale green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker green, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A detailed table of the author's photographic data is included.
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DUTTON Ralph
The English Interior 1500-1900. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 6 coloured plates (one double-page), 164 fine monochrome plates on 96 and numerous illustrations and plans in the text; fore-edges very faintly spotted; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Deceptively detailed and extraordinarily well-illustrated study published in Batsford's notable British Art & Buildings series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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CRYSTAL David
The Stories of English. With a New Afterword by the Author. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and maps; blue cloth, boards lettered in black, backstrip lettered in white and red, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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GRIGSON Jane
English Food. Revised and enlarged edition. With Illustrations by Gillian Zeiner. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured plates, line drawings in the text and pictorial endpapers, inscription on half-title; brown tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in darker brown, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Considerably enlarged and metricated version of the original edition of 1974. Arguably Grigson's most influential work. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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TURNER W.J.
English Music. [Britain in Pictures series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 12 coloured plates and 21 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Carney 3.
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NEEDHAM A.
How to study an old Church. With an Introduction by J. Littlejohns. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text; purple cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. First published in 1944.
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GARDINER Samuel Rawson
History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate 1649-1660. [Complete set]. ABERCONWAY FAMILY COPY WITH ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous maps, and maps in the text; original brown cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt backs, black endpapers, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails, hinges of first volume tender (but binding wholly sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp set. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM LORD ABERCONWAY TO HIS GRANDDAUGHTER ROSALIND NORMAN WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ABERCONWAY ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE AND SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION BY LORD ABERCONWAY. The set comprises Vol. I: 1649-1651 (1894); Vol. II: 1651-1654 (1897); Vol. III: 1654-1656 (1901). COMPLETE SETS ARE VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 220.
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JENKINS Simon
England's Thousand Best Churches. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs (many full-page) and maps in the text; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, blue silk marker, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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