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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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SHIRLEY Evelyn Philip
Some Account of English Deer Parks. With Notes on the Management of Deer. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original green cloth, upper board framed and blocked in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, red endpapers, very neatly recased, a very good, bright, clean, fresh copy. With printed personal book-label on front paste-down. Schwerdt II, p. 161. SCARCE.
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ALLMAND C.T.
English Suits before the Parlement of Paris 1420-1436. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by C.T. Allmand and C.A.J. Armstrong. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Camden Fourth Series Volume 26.
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GENET (ed.) Jean-Philippe
Four English Political Tracts of the Later Middle Ages. Edited for the Royal Historical Society by Jean-Philippe Genet. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original series binding of olive cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy. Camden Fourth Series Volume 18.
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OMAN Charles
English Church Plate 597-1830. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy,. 8vo., First Edition, with plates, some very lightl age-spotting; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. A standard reference. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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LANSDOWNE HOUSE
English Decorative Art. Illustrated Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of English Decorative Art at Lansdowne House February 17 - 28, 1929. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and coloured and monochrome plates; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES.
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FISHER Stanley W
English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century. An Illustrated Descriptive Account of the early soft paste productions of Bow, Chelsea, Lowestoft, Derby, Longton Hall, Bristol, Worcester, Caughley and Liverpool Potters, circa 1740-1800. With a Foreword by Bernard Rackham. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and 44 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the original editon of 1947.
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HUGHES J.
The Boscobel Tracts, relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester, and his subsequent Adventures. CLEAN COPY IN HALF CALF
8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, 2 engraved plans and a lithographed plate, frontispiece, plates and a few leaves moderately spotted; light toned half calf, marbled boards, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, compartments ruled in blind, second compartment with brown leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. With personal armorial bookplate (defaced) on front paste-down. Collects (i) An Account of His Majesty's Escape…dictated to Mr. Pepys [BM Add MS. 31955]; (ii) Boscobel Parts I and II by Blount; (iii) Claustrum Regale Reseratum by Wyndham (1667); (iv) MS account by Whitgreave, Charles's host at Moseley Hall; (v) Captain Ellesdon's Memoir; (vi) Letter from a Prisoner at Chester. A later, inferior, edition appeared in 1857. The lithograph shows the sovereign making his escape attended by the five 'Pendrels' [sic] and Yates. Drawn 'on stone' by Giles, it is printed by Hullmandel who had started to popularise the art in England around 1818. It is thus a relatively early example of this form of illustration. SCARCE. Anderson, p.248; Davies, 841.
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WEDGWOOD C.V.
The Trial of Charles I. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, green top (lightly faded), a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of the classic account.
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FUSSELL G.E.
The English Rural Labourer. His Home, Furniture, Clothing and Food from Tudor to Victorian Times. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 17 plates on 12 and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, , the latter mildly sunned at backstrip. Valuable study with extensive bibliography.
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BETJEMAN John
A Pictorial History of English Architecture. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The controversial addendum leaf, scarcely ever found, is not present with this copy. Peterson A40a; Stapleton, I.58.
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DAVID MESSUM
The Magic and Poetry of Everyday Life. Pantings Past and Present from the New English Art Club. Wednesday 19 May to Saturday 3 July 2010. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs and reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. With a copy of the price list loosely inserted. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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COLNAGHI
English Watercolours and Drawings. 16 November to 3 December 1988. FINE COPY
Oblong. 4to., First Edition, with numerous reproductions throughout; printed wrappers lettered in silver, a fine copy. SCARCE.
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HARTLEY Dorothy
Food in England. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates and numerous illustrations in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of a gastronomic classic, first published in 1954. NOW SCARCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT.
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ENGLISH John
Obdurate to Daring. British Fleet Destroyers 1941-1945. FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial boards, a fine copy. Second of the author's detailed accounts of British WWII destroyer classes and development, and a fitting sequel to 'Afridi to Nizam' . Includes service histories of 113 destroyers, with full vessel index and seven appendices detailing building dates and post-war conversions completed or proposed. VERY SCARCE.
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LEWIS Griselda
A Picture History of English Pottery. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, mounted coloured plate and numerous fine plates in monochrome; black cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with small loss at tail of backstrip.
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HILL Christoper
The World Turned Upside Down. Radical Ideas during the English Revolution. Introduced by Bernard Capp. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 24pp of plates; black cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red and black, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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ROE Fred
Ancient Church Chests and Chairs. in the Home Counties round Greater London. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter mildly frayed and creased at edges. Bright copy of a standard reference.
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KREMLIN.
English Silver Treasures from the Kremlin. A Loan Exhibition 1 - 31 January 1991 NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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MEACHAM Standish
A Life Apart. The English Working Class 1890-1914. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, fore-edge lightly spotted; brown cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BURNS Robert
The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns. Edited by James Kinsley. [Complete Set]. NEAR FINE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 3 portrait frontispieces; original series binding of navy cloth, upper boards blocked in blind, gilt backs, a near fine set in price-clipped, very lightly age-marked dustwrapper. Oxford English Texts. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BRADSHAW Peter
18th Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, upper board and backstrip letterd in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Virtually fine copy of a standard reference.
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BRITTON Frank
English Delftware in the Bristol Collection. Foreword by Arnold Wilson. Preface by Michael Archer. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with many hundreds of photographs in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Lovely copy of a standard reference. The 800 pieces of English delftware in the Bristol City Art Gallery form what is believed to be the largest such public collection in the world.
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BURCHFIELD Robert
The English Language. Introduction by Robert McCrum. Afterword by John Simpson. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and coloured and monochrome plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; patterned boards, red cloth back ruled and lettered in gilt, red endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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CLARKE Basil F.L.
Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century. A Study of the Gothic Revival in England. With a Preface by Sir Charles Nicholson. A Reprint. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with plates and full-page illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A pioneer study in the revaluation of High Victorian architecture. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1938.
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WRIGHTSON Priscilla
The Small English House. Catalogue 35. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. With the errata slip mounted on title. The catalogue describes over 660 items with full index.
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RAPHAEL TUCK, pub.
Bristol Cathedral; Canterbury Cathedral; Chichester Cathedral; Exeter Cathedral; Fountains Abbey; Lincoln Minster; Peterborough Cathedral; Salisbury Cathedral; Southwark Cathedral; Wells Cathedral; Westminster Abbey; Winchester Cathedral; York Minster. REMARKABLE RUN OF TUCK'S 'CATHEDRALS'
13 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with coloured or sepia-toned frontispieces and very numerous sepia-toned plates, some light and occasional spotting; coloured cloth, upper boards lettered in gilt enclosing mounted coloured illustrations (not repeated in text), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean and elegant run. Published in the early 1930s, Raphael Tuck's 'Cathedral Story' series provides accessible and easily-written accounts of the great English Cathedals and Minsters. The authors, always well-informed, were almost exclusively senior clergy of their respective institutions, and the plates are well-chosen and atmospheric. In particular, the cover watercolour illustrations are quite charming and the series as A whole has an attractive and elegant feel. This run comprises A.S. Duncan-Jones: Chichester Cathedral (1ed. 1933. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY), Horace Munroe: Southwark Cathedral (1ed. 1933), Margaret A. Babington: Canterbury Cathedral (2ed. 1934), Charles C. Bell: York Minster (1ed. 1931), E.G. Swain: Peterborough Cathedral (1ed. 1932), J.H. Srawley: Lincoln Minster (1ed. 1933), Arthur Huxley Thompson: Exeter Cathedral (1ed. 1933), Lawrence E. Tanner: Westminster Abbey (1ed. 1932), Richard H. Malden: Wells Cathedral (2ed. 1938), Charles C. Bell: Fountains Abbey (1ed. 1932), J.M.J. Fletcher: Salisbury Cathedral (1ed. 1933), E.G. Selwyn: Winchester Cathedral (1ed. 1934), Maurice H. Fitzgerald: Bristol Cathedral (1ed. 1936). GOOD RUNS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
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YARWOOD Doreen
The English Home. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., with numerous plates and illustrations (a number full-page) throughout; green tweed cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised edition of a standard reference first published in 1956.
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PEPYS Samuel
His Majesty Preserved. An Account of King Charles II's Escape after the Battle of Worcester dictated to Samuel Pepys by the King himself. Reprinted from the First Edition with an Introduction by William Reese-Mogg. NEAR FINE COPY
vo. First Edition thus; original red boards gilt back covers just a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy
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BENINGFIELD (illus.) Gordon
Beningfield's English Landscape. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured illustrations (the majority full-page) throughout and pictorial endpapers; boards, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. WITH THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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SETTLE Alison
English Fashion. [Britain in Pictures]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 23 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial brown boards, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly suffed dustwrapper. Carney, 121.
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