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STORM Johan
Englische Philologie. Anleitung zum wissenschaftlichen Studium der Englishen Sprache. I: Die lebende Sprache. 1. Abteilung: Phonetik und Aussprache
xv + 484pp., 23cm., 2nd ed., cart.cover (spine in cloth), T68864
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RAMISCH Heinrich
The variation of English in Guersney / Channel Islands
vii + 211pp., 21cm., softcover, Very good condition, in the series "Bamberger Beiträge zur Englischen Sprachwissenschaft" vol.24, Ph.D Dissertation, T77652
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KELLNER Leon
Shakespeare-Wörterbuch
viii + 358pp., 23cm., hardback (cloth with title in gilt on spine), VG, T77426
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SMIDT Kristian
James Joyce and the cultic use of fiction
vii + 106pp., hardcover (editor's cloth), 22cm., good condition, T79573
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LESSING Ferdinand e.a.
Mongolian-English dictionary [Added: Combined index to the supplements to Lessing's Mongolian-English dictionary]
xv + 1217pp., 27cm., original 1960-edition, cloth, G, rare, [the dictionary contains the Mongolian vocabulary of all periods from 1940 on, and offers the English transliteration, the modern Cyrillic transcription, the old Mongolian script form and an English definition of the Mongolian words. Added: Combined index to the supplements to Lessing's Mongolian-English dictionary, Bloomington, The Mongolia Society, 1975, 23pp.], X68994
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DERVEAUX-VAN USSEL Gh.
Tentoonstelling van Engels en Mechels albasten beeldhouwwerk
66pp.+ 32 zw/w platen buiten tekst, 24cm., Catalogus van tentoonstelling 28 sept.-5 nov.1967, goede staat, S84429
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ESTEVE Edmond
Byron et le romantisme français. Essai sur la fortune et l'influence de l'oeuvre de Byron en France de 1812 a 1850
xvi + 560pp., 2e édition, brochure originale, 26cm., très bon état, T94413
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MURRAY DAVIS Robert, DOYLE Paul A., CALLAGHER Donat, LINCK Charles E. & BOGAARDS Winnifred M.
A Bibliography of Evelyn Waugh
xii + 473pp., 24cm., publisher's hardcover in red cloth with gilt lettering, very good/fine condition, [Contains 3097 bibliographical references], T94426
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LINDKVIST Harald
Middle-English place-names of Scandinavian origin. Part 1
Part 1 (all that has ever been published): lxiii + 226 + [i] pp., 25cm., Inaugural Dissertation by permission of the philosophical faculty of Upsala for the degree of doctor of philosophy (1912), softcover, small stamp at verso of title page, pages still uncut, good condition, T98326
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GOYENS Kristin
Plutarchus' voorstelling van Antonius' karakter in de 'Vita Antonii' en een vergelijking met Shakespeares 'Anthony and Cleopatra'
131pp., 30cm., gebroch., Onuitgegeven verhandeling aangeboden tot het behalen van de graad van licentiaat in de Klassieke Filologie aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (promotor: prof.dr. H. Verdin), met enkele aantekeningen en tekstaanduidingen, verder in goede staat, K108725
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HERBST Lenore
Die altenglische Margaretenlegende in der Hs. Cotton Tiberius A. III., mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und Glossar
152pp., 21cm., text in German (and text edition in Old English), softcover, Doctoral Dissertation (Dissetation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophischen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, good condition, T109878
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BUCHNER Gunter
Vier altenglische Bezeichnungen für Vergehen und Verbrechen (Firen, Gylt, Man, Scyld)
205pp., 21cm., softcover, text in German, Doctoral dissertation (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Philosophie der Philosophischen Fakultät der Freien Universität Berlin), stamp at verso of title page, text is clean and bright, good condition, T110885
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Cambridge international dictionary of English.
In-8° pp. 12-1773, bross. edit. con lievi tracce d'uso e vecchi timbri.
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WALPOLE (Horace)
Letters to the Countess of Ossory.
3 volumes gr. In-8, 317-336-371p. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf, non coupé. Printed on Unbleached Arnold paper. In perfect condition.
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Cock Robin and other nursery tales. With twenty-four page illustrations, printed in colours.
In-12, non paginé. Illustré de 24 planches chromolithographiques. Quelques rousseurs, nom de possesseur en page de garde, sinon bon exemplaire.
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PARKER] [John Henry
A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture. Exemplified by Four Hundred Wood-Cuts. IN CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO
8vo., Second Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, 64 wood-engraved plates (each containing several figures) and numerous wood-engravings in the text, endpapers and preliminaries lightly spotted; contemporary green half morocco, marbled boards, gilt back, marbled edges, skilfully rebacked, original backstrip gilt with five raised bands laid down, one or two scuffs on boards else a very good, bright, clean copy. Parker's most popular, if not his most profound, work. It includes fresh ideas on Saxon architecture, an article on stained glass by Willement, and (like most of Parker's writings) is charmingly - and accurately - illustrated by Jewitt.
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BUTLER] [Samuel
Hudibras. [In Three Parts, complete]. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended, with Several Additions and Annotations. [With 'The Author's Life']. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 'LIFE'
3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., some moderate age-staining throughout, neat eighteenth-century inscriptions (some dated) on endpapers, front free endpaper expertly mounted, small contemporary signature on title of first part; contemporary panelled calf elaborately tooled in blind, back with four raised bands, uncut, first compartment replaced in calf to style, joints rubbed, lower outer corner frayed, a good, sound copy in a sympathetically restored contemporary binding. Contains the First Part [with 'The Author's Life'], Printed by E.P. for Geo. Sawbridge in Little-Britain, 1704; the Second Part [with 'An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to Sidrophel', first added in 1678], Printed for R. Chiswel, G. Sawbridge, R. Wellington, and G. Wells, 1704; the Third and Last Part, Printed for Thomas Horne, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange, MDCCIV.Early collected edition of all three parts. In keeping with the so-called 'collected editions' of this period, each part retains its individual title and pagination; the first dition with continuous pagination did not appear until 1710. The Author's Life', ascribed by Oldys to Sir James Astrey, APPEARS HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME (the writer professes to supplement and correct the notice given in Wood's 'Athenae Oxonienses'.)CBEL, II: 260; Greco's Catalogue of the Severance Collection (Chapel Hill), 18.
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[Sale Catalogue of] English Literature and History. 17 July 1997 in the Aeolian Hall, London. INCLUDES CHURCHILL'S WWI LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER
4to., with a fine portrait frontispiece of Churchill and very numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. This remarkable sale comprised 534 lots of outstanding manuscripts, letters, other documents, and signed and presentation copies of books. Among the highlights are A HIGHLY IMPORTANT SERIES OF LETTERS BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO HIS BROTHER JACK DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, T.E. Lawrence's corrected typescript of his early abridged version of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', and the autograph manuscript of General Montgomery's message to the Eighth Army before El Alamein.
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ALFORD Violet
Peeps at English Folk-Dances. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 2 coloured plates, 8 plates in monochrome and 2 illustrations (one full-page) in the text, neat signature on free endpaper; original decorative cloth elaborately blocked in black, large coloured illustration (not repeated in text) mounted on upper board, backstrip lettered and blocked in black, a near fine copy. Published in Black's well-known 'Peeps' series. Inman 858.
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BARR J.
Anglican Church Architecture with Some Remarks upon Ecclesiastical Furniture.
8vo., First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, 21 fine engraved plates, and very numerous engraved illustrations (many full-page) in the text, neat contemporary monogram on title, rear free endpaper lightly foxed; original blind-blocked cloth lettered in gilt, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, uncut, a notably bright, clean, crisp copy. With 2pp publisher's advertisement bound in at end. First appearance of a standard work in the early resurgence of 'Gothic'. Dedicated to the Oxford Society, Barr's study is eminently practical and very well organised by architectural feature. As usual with Parker's publications, the plates and illustrations (which include a number by Jewitt) are both delightful and detailed. Uncommon in this condition.
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ARBER] [Edward
An English Garner. [Ingatherings from our History and Literature. COMPLETE SET OF THE BEST EDITION
12 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus and Best Edition, on laid paper, some endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of dark blue cloth, gilt backs, gilt tops (save Beazley), uncut, a very good, bright, firm set. Ten volumes have a uniform pictorial personal bookplate on front paste-down, two volumes have the fine armorial bookplate of the Signet Library [Edinburgh].This valuable compilation of tracts, poetry, prose and other contemporary documents was first assembled under the editorship of Edward Arber and published in eight volumes between 1877 and 1896. Here the entire collection is reissued in greatly expanded form, rearranged and reclassified under the general editorship of Thomas Seccombe. There is much new material and the series as a whole benefits from fresh critical apparatus from some of the finest scholars of the day. The collection comprises: Aitken (G.A). Later Stuart Tracts (1903); Beazley (C.R). Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries (2 vols) (1903); Bullen (A.H). Shorter Elizabethan Poems (1903); Bullen (A.H). Some Longer Elizabethan Poems (1903); Collins (J.C). Critical Essays and Literary Fragments (1903); Firth (C.H). Stuart Tracts 1603-1693 (1903); Lang (A). Social England Illustrated. A Collection of XVIIth Century Tracts (1903); Lee (S). Elizabethan Sonnets, newly arranged and indexed (2 vols; 1904); Pollard (A.F). Tudor Tracts 1532-1588 (1903); Pollard (A.W). Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse (1903). Scarce as a set, especially in this condition.
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BAYNE-POWELL Rosamond
English Country Life in the Eighteenth Century.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 9 plates on 7, free endpapers lightly spotted; pictorial cloth gilt, gilt back, a bright, clean copy.
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BOND Francis
Dedications & Patron Saints of English Churches. Ecclesiastical Symbolism. Saints and their Emblems.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece and over 250 illustrations from photographs (many full-page) in the text; original buckram, upper board lettered in white, neatly rebacked with new paper label lettered in black, a very good, clean copy. A standard reference, and useful complement to Arnold-Forster.
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BOND Francis
Wood Carvings in English Churches [Volume II]. I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishops' Thrones and Chancel Chairs.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous half-tone plates from photographs in the text; original buckram, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. A standard reference . Read 2699.
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BENFIELD Eric
Southern English. Illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations in the text; neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, backstrip sunned else a firm, clean copy.
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BIRMINGHAM
Four Tracts relative to the Battle of Birmingham. Anno Domini 1643. [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. First published in London in 1643, these tracts were reprinted at Birmingham in 1815 and again at the Birmingham School of Printing in 1931. VERY SCARCE.
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BOUQUET A.C.
Church Brasses, British & Continental with some Notes on Incised Stone Slabs and Indents.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece and 129 monochrome illustrations (manu full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy.
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BRANDON Raphael
The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages. Illustrated by perspective and working Drawings of some of the best Varieties of Church Roofs.
Roy. 4to., with a coloured frontispiece, 4 coloured plans, 38 monochrome plates and 11 illustrations in the text, some occasional spotting as usual, rather heavier on frontispiece; publisher's cloth, richly blocked in gilkt and blind, gilt back, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. The work was designed for use by church architects and presents working drawings of no fewer than 35 church roofs.
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DAHL Folke
A Bibliography of English Corantos and Periodical Newsbooks, 1620-1642. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 16 facsimiles in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of grey boards, oatmeal holland back lettered in black, a near fine copy.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY CAMBRIDGE
A Hand-List of English Books in the Library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, printed before MDCXLI.
8vo., on laid paper; original boards, holland back, uncut and partly unopened, a very good, clean copy. With an introductory note by A.W. Pollard, the work lists some 2,600 volumes
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BORENIUS Tancred
English Medieval Painting.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with 101 fine plates in collotype (all original captioned tissue guards present) and 11 illustrations in the text; original cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, clean, bright copy. Standard reference uncommon in this condition.
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BENNETT H.S.
Life on the English Manor. A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400.
8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 6 and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The original edition of this standard reference is elusive in this condition.
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BUDDEN Charles W.
English Gothic Churches. The Story of their Architecture.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 40 sepia-toned plates and 53 illustrations in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; original blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in black, gilt back, backstrip sunned to brown (but all gilt bright and entirely legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. As usual with this publisher, an excellent and well-illustrated general survey. Includes an index of examples by county. Uncommon in this condition.
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WHITE Newport J. D.
A Short Catalogue of English Books in Archbishop Marsh's Library, Dublin printed before MDCXLI. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, sewed as issued in the Society's dove-blue wrappers, uncut, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. 'Bibliographical Society, Catalogues of English Books', No. I. Newport White was Marsh's Librarian.
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CESCINSKY Herbert
English Domestic Clocks. Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs by the Authors. [Second Edition].
Sm. folio, Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, monochrome plates and many hundreds of illustrations in the text; original half morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, joints rubbed (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. A standard reference. The first edition was published in the previous year.
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COLERIDGE Samuel Taylor
Notes on English Divines. Edited by the Rev. Derwent Coleridge. FIRST EDITION IN UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING
2 vols., 16mo., First Edition; original grained brown cloth, sides elaborately blocked in blind, gilt backs, yellow endpapers, uncut and partially unopened, cloth split with minor loss at upper inch of each backstrip, hinges tender (but bindings entirely sound) else a very good, bright, clean set in wholly unrestored publisher's original binding. Complete with half-titles, and 8pp publisher's catalogue (dated October 1852) bound in at front of first volume. The work is based on the 'Literary Remains'. This is an early issue as denoted by the date of the publisher's catalogue. Shepherd, p.67; Wise 95.
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COX J. Charles
English Church Furniture. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 50 plates on 29 and very numerous line illustrations in the text, free endpapers browned; original series binding of decorative buckram, sides with multple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. With publisher's 4pp series in red and black, and general 40pp catalogue bound in at end. With the trade ticket of Blinko of Ramsgate on rear paste-down. Published in Methuen's fine 'Antiquary's Books' series.
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COX J. Charles
Bench-Ends in English Churches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First and Sole Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous half-tone plates from photographs in the text, free endpapers very lightly spotted; original buckram lettered in white, backstrip faded as often else a very good, clean copy. Increasingly elusive standard reference. Includes a list by county.
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COX J. Charles
County Churches. Cumberland and Westmorland.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 13 plates, 14 illustrations in the text and endpaper maps, some light offsetting to free endpapers; decorative cloth blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Arguably the scarcest volume in Allen's delightful 'County Churches' series. Each volume gives a detailed historical introduction followed by a list of churches in alphabetical sequence, together with a list of modern churches. Hodgson, p.86.
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CRASHAW Richard
The English Poems of Richard Crashaw. Edited, with an Introduction & Notes by Edward Hutton.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on India Paper, with a frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, front endpapers and half-title lightly browned; original series binding of leaf-green buckram, upper board with gilt hearts at corners (blind hearts on lower board), gilt back, gilt top, uncut, green silk marker, a very good, clean copy. This delightful edition is published in Methuen's 'Little Library'. A 4pp prospectus of the series, with introduction by Frederic Harrison and specimen page from 'Vanity Fair', is bound in at end. Scarce.
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CURRIE C.R.J.
A Guide to English County Histories.
4to., First Paperback Edition, with a frontispiece and 25 plates; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. An important and extremely useful study which, in addition to its historial and bibliographical surveys of the counties, includes a moving tribute by Susan Reynolds to Christopher Elrington, general editor of the Victoria County History.
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CUTTS Rev. Edward L.
An Essay on Church Furniture and Decoration. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, with 10 coloured, tinted and monochrome plates, and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; handsomely bound in full navy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, uncut, original gilt from upper board and backstrip, bookplate and trade ticket all preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front, a splendid copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 8pp advertisement (unopened) for the Clerical Journal bound in at end. With the armorial bookplate of Christopher T Perowne, and contemporary trade ticket of Fletcher & Alexander of Norwich. The signature on the title is that the Rev. J. Spurgeon Green, sometime vicar of St. Mark's Marylebone. Cutts' valuable essay was written originally as a supplement to the Clerical Journal. Its importance was recognised immediately and he was urged to produce a revised and augmented version with additional woodcuts and the ten famous plates. A SPLELNDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF A VERY SCARCE TREATISE
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DAVENPORT Cyril
The English Regalia. FINE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CROWN JEWELS. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to. First Edition, on laid paper, title and dedication in red and black, with 12 fine chromo-lithographed plates and numerous illustrations in the text; attractively bound in burgandy buckram, navy morocco back gilt, uncut, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 302).
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DAVENPORT Cyril
Royal English Bookbindings.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 7 fine coloured plates, and 27 monochrome illustrations in the text;, free endpapers faintly browned; original plum cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, covers unevenly faded at backstrip else a very good, bright, clean copy. A very nice, bright copy of a standard reference. Uncommon in this condition.
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DAVID Elizabeth
English Bread and Yeast Cookery. With Illustrations by Wendy Jones. [Fifth Impression thus].
8vo., Fifth Paperback Impression, with numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. David's classic text was first published in 1977, with the paperback edition following in 1979.
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DITCHFIELD P.H.
English Villages. Second Edition.
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and numerous illustrations in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Ditchfield's classic study was first published in 1901.
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MILNE (ed.) F.A.
The Gentleman's Magazine Library from 1731 to 1868. Edited by George Lawrence Gomme. Ecclesiology, edited by F.A. Milne.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; buckram, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. An additional volume to Elliot Stock's series of reprints of the magazine's topographical series. Perhaps the widest individually published collection of ecclesiological notes and studies, with contributions from many standard authorities including Parker and Walcott. VERY SCARCE
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ENGLISH L. S.
An Introduction to the Collecting and History of Whitby Prints. 210 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., folio, First and Sole Edition, with 277 reproductions of engravings and 25 head- and tail-pieces; original white buckram, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 210 COPIES.
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FOXELL Nigel
Amberley Church. A Critical Appreciation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. One of the most beautiful and historic villages in Sussex, Amberley has been the home of several artists including Arthur Rackham. St. Michael's Church dates from the eleventh century; this is one of the most scholarly and detailed surveys of any English parish church.
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FUSSELL G.E.
More Old English Farming Books from Tull to the Board of Agriculture: 1731 to 1793.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates, free endpapers lightly browned; cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. Sequel and complement to 'The Old English Farming Books' (1947)
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