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CROSSLEY F.H.
The English Abbey. Its Life and Work in the Middle Ages. With a Foreword by Lord Harlech. Illustrated by Photographs by the Author and Others, and by Drawings by Brian Cook. Second Edition, Revised. [Second Impression thus]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Impression thus, with coloured frontispiece, 2 coloured plates, 135 monochrome plates on 98, very numerous illustrations and double-page map in the text, 2 large folding plans, and front and rear endpaper plans; original grey cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Published in Batsford's well-known 'British Heritage' series with striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook. Crossley's classic account was first published in 1935. The substantially revised second edition was published just before the outbreak of war. The text was corrected, the county list of abbies made more complete and the index entirely remade and extended. The illustrations in particular were completely overhauled, omitting several and substituting others deemed more suitable or informative. In this wartime second impression, gone alas, is the laid paper of the earlier work, but this is a bright copy nevertheless.
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DOBREE Bonamy
English Essayists. [Britain in Pictures series].
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 24 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges and on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Uncommon in this condition. Carney 106.
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EDWARDS Ralph
The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period. [Third Impression].
Sm. folio, Third Impression, with a coloured frontispiece and very numerous monochrome photographs throughout; cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. Good, sound copy of the third impression of this standard reference first issued in 1964.
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FIELD J.
English Field-Names. A Dictionary.
8vo., First Edition; with a frontispiece and a full-page map in the text, top mildly spotted; original yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Scarce, especially in this condition
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FUSSELL G.E.
The Old English Farming Books from Fitzherbert to Tull, 1523-1730. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip and rubbed with minor loss at upper fold-in.
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FUSSELL G.E.
The English Countryman. His Life and Work from Tudor Times to the Victorian Age. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with 73 plates on 64; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the classic study, originally published by Melrose in 1955.
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GLOAG John
The Englishman's Castle. A History of Houses, large and small, in Town and Country, from AD 100 to the Present Day. With Drawings by Marjory Whittington. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 15 coloured plates, 11 plates in monochrome, and numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in yellow, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-written general study with very attractive plates.
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O'KEEFFE Paul
A Genius for Failure. The Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, full-page tinted illustrations and facsimiles in the text; black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Already scarce in this condition.
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HUGHES G.B.
English, Scottish and Irish Table Glass.
4to., First Edition, endpapers and fore-edges lightly spotted; original cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip and rubbed at extremities.
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JENKINS J. Geraint
The English Farm Wagon. Origins and Structure. [New edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 58 illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard work, first published in a limited edition in 1961. The appendices include a catalogue of surviving examples.
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JONES (ed.) P.M.
English Critical Essays. Twentieth Century. Selected with an Introduction by Phyllis M. Jones. The World's Classics.
Sm. 8vo., paste-downs very lightly spotted; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, blue silk marker, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly dust-soiled at backstrip. First published in World's Classics in 1933. World's Classics 405.
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JOURDAIN Margaret
English Furniture. The Georgian Period (1750-1830). With a Foreword by Ralph Edwards.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, and 171 fine plates in monochrome; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-spotted as often and with minor loss (affecting lettering) at lower edge of front panel. A lovely copy of a standard reference.
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KETTON-CREMER R.W.
A Norfolk Gallery [Second Impression]. Norfolk Gallery [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, with 8 plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published six months after the first edition. Includes accounts of several leading personalities of the Civil War period, among them Hamon L'Estrange, Layer, Marsham, Walpole and Repton. Clarke & Gretton, A10; Darroch & Taylor, 679 (incorrectly dated 1958!).
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LAWRIE W. H.
English and Welsh Trout Flies. Essays and Analyses. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 4 coloured plates, 4 plates in monochrome and 8 illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel.
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LEES-MILNE James
English Country Houses. Baroque 1685-1715.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 467 fine plates (a number full-page) in the text; original green buckram gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little faded at backstrip and fold-ins.
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MCLEAN T.
English Medieval Gardens.
8vo., First Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper
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ROBERTS R.
Twelfth Century Church Architecture in Sussex.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip. This privately printed monograph examines the development of Norman architecture in twenty-two Sussex churches. Scarce.
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OAKDEN J.A.
The Place-Names of Staffordshire. Part 1. Cuttlestone Hundred [This volume only].
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. English Place-Name Society, vol. LV. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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RING Jim
How the English made the Alps.
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 32 and endpaper maps, wanting one blank preliminary; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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ROWSE (ed.) A.L.
The West in English History.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.
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SMITH J.C.D.
A Guide to Church Woodcarvings. Misericords and Bench-Ends.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEWART B.
The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Fine copy of a standard reference.
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STOKES H.G.
English Place-Names. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 63 fine monochrome plates (one double-page) on 32; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With a relevant cutting neatly laid in. A well-illustrated general survey, published in Batsford's notable 'British Heritage' series.
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TOOLE-STOTT Raymond
A Bibliography of Books on the Circus in English from 1773 to 1964. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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WEDGWOOD C.V.
The Trial of Charles I. [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, with 10 plates on 8 and pictorial endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at backstrip and (predominantly white) rear panel. Third and final volume of Wedgwood's classic trilogy on Charles I. Published a month after the first edition.
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HOLE Christina
English Home-Life 1500 to 1800. Illustrated from Portraits, Paintings and Prints. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate, 83 sepia-toned plates on 48 and 8 illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, clean, bright copy in the dustwrapper. One of the more elusive titles in the splendid Batsford series.
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PRAGNELL Hubert
The Styles of English Architecture.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 25 plates on 16 and numerous illustrations in the text; beige cloth, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BURKE Thomas
English Inns. [Britain in Pictures series. Third Impression].
4to., Third Impression, with 8 coloured plates and 24 monochrome illustrations in the text, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges and on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Uncommon in this condition. Carney 67.
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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 lightly browned at edges and on (predominantly white) rear panel. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Uncommon in this condition. Carney 31.
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GILLMAN F.J.
The Evolution of the English Hymn. An Historical Survey of the Origins and Development of the Hymns of the Christian Church. With a Foreword by Sir H. Walford Davies.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 13 plates on 7, small inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-soiled, small pull at headband else a very good, clean copy.
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CUTTS E.L.
Turning Points of English Church History. Seventeenth Thousand.
8vo., Seventeenth Thousand; original chocolate cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, chocolate endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With contemporary prize certificate mounted on front free endpaper. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY
Early English Alliterative Poems in the West Midlands Dialect of the Fourteenth Century. Copied and edited from a unique Manuscript in the Library of the British Museum, Cotton, Nero Ax. With an Introduction, Notes and Index. Second Edition, Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition; strongly bound in blue patterned cloth, leather back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the separately printed errata slip mounted facing Preface. Sold from an institution with its bookplate and small press-marks on front endpapers, and neat small stamps on half-title and title. First published in 1864. VERY SCARCE.
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SAWYER Charles J.
English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors. Volume I [only] Caxton to Johnson. 2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a fine frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, a large folding facsimile (original tissue guard captioned in red present), and 51 facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original red buckram, boards framed in blind, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 2000 SETS. The first of two volumes; Sawyer & Darton' remains one of the finest guides to English books ever written. A lovely copy.
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MALIM Margaret F.
Old English Wood-Carving Patterns from Oak Furniture of the Jacobean Period. A Series of Examples, selected and drawn in Facsimile from Rubbings, for the Use of Teachers, Students and Classes. Comprising 30 Examples on 20 Plates.
Large folio, First Edition, with title in red and black; original green boards lettered in black, ivory buckram backstrip lettered in brown, original portfolio ties present, covers lightly age-soiled, lower corner slightly bowed else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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DICK Jack R.
[Sale] Catalogue of The Jack R. Dick Collection of English Sporting and Conversation Paintings. 31 October 1973 - 20 April 1976. Sale Code: 'Turf'. COMPLETE SET WITH SOME PRICES AND ESTIMATES
4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous fine coloured and monochrome reproductions (a number folding; the majority full-page), some prices entered in MS; original green boards(first volume) and green cloth (last three volumes), upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, covers of cloth volume very lightly age-faded at edges else a very good, bright, clean set. With the printed lists of prices realised loosely inserted in first two volumes, and printed list of estimates loosely inserted in last volume.
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HILLIER Bevis
Young Betjeman. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 42 plates on 28; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First volume of Hillier's projected three-volume life of Betjeman, a project entrusted to him by the poet himself and likely to become of the most entertaining biographies of its time. Covers the years 1906-1933. Peterson O98.
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EVANSS Tony
English Cottages. Introduction by John Betjeman. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with very numerous coloured photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. Peterson B178.
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CHURCHILL Winston S.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. COMPLETE SET IN PUBLISHER'S BRANDED BINDERS
7 vols., sm. folio, First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs, illustrations and maps throughout; in blue rexine binders, gilt backs, binders mildly bowed as usual else a very good, bright, clean set. In this set the outer series wrappers were discarded as intended; the bowing of the binders is due to sheer volume and weight of the contents. This major and profusely illustrated partwork was the result of several years of preparation, with numerous contributors working to the editorial board comprising Mortimer Wheeler, Hugh Trevor-Roper and A.J.P. Tayor - three of the most eminent historians of the period. The partwork was issued in 112 weekly parts intended to be housed in seven optional and separately issued branded binders. Consequently it required considerable time, effort and motivation to acquire and bind a complete set. UNSURPRISINGLY, COMPLETE SETS IN BINDERS ARE RELATIVELY UNCOMMON.
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BIBLE
The English Version of the Polyglot Bible containing the Old and New Testaments. [With Cruden's Concordance and Four Thousand Short Scripture Questions with Answers]. AGSTER'S TEACHER'S BIBLE: LARGE EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S ROAN PORTFOLIO
8vo., on India paper, with 9 coloured engraved maps on 6 and a double-page chronological chart; attractively bound in publisher's black roan portfolio with drop sides all round, covers framed and blocked in blind and blocked and lettered in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in blind, second compartment lettered in gilt 'Bagster's Teacher's Bible', gilt edges, black endpapers, portfolio mildly scuffed and rubbed at extremities else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Bagster's Teacher's Bible is a facsimile reprint, with larger types, of the English Version of Bagster's Polyglot Bible first published in 1817 and which made Bagster's name. It corresponds page for page, and line for line, with the two well-known Pocket Editions. The text is that of the Authorized Version, printed in double column with the references in a third central column in Bagster style. In addition to the Old and New Testaments, this edition contains Cruden's Concordance, Chronology, Tables of Weights & Measures, Tabular Harmony, Comparative View of Quotations, and a set of maps engraved and coloured expressly for this edition. A particular feature is the set of Four Thousand Short Scripture Question with Answers, designed expressly for the use of teachers. The Teacher's Bible is an edition uncommon at best, and scarce indeed in this condition with wholly unrestored portfolio in unusually sound state. See Darlow & Moule 1081.
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MACCOBY S.
English Radicalism 1762-1785. The Origins.
8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy. With a personal bookplate on front paste-down, and neat stamp on front free endpaper and fore-edge. First volume of Maccoby's Radicalism trilogy.
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FIRTH Charles
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 32 plates and 7 maps (one folding on japon); handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy of the original edition of the best life of Cromwell. Davies 870.
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GRIERSON H.J.C.
Cross Currents in English Literature of the XVIIth Century. Or, the World, the Flesh and the Spirit, their Actions and Reactions. Being the Messenger Lectures on the Evolution of Civilization, Cornell University 1926-27.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; terracotta cloth, gilt back, terracotta top, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
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ADAMS W. Bridges
English Pleasure Carriages. With an Introduction by Jack Simmons.
8vo., on laid paper, with numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial cloth, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1837.
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ANDERSON Mary D.
History by the Highway. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16 and a full-page map; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BRIERS Richard
English Country Churches. Photographs by Mervyn Blatch.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous colour and monochrome plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper
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CHAMBERLIN Russell
The English Parish Church. With Photographs by Simon McBride.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numeroud fine half-tone illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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CLIFTON-TAYLOR Alec
Another Six English Towns.
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text, fore-edges of a few leaves lightly marked; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Based on the highly successful BBC television series, Taylor's third volume covers Bury St. Edmunds, Cirencester, Devizes, Durham, Sandwich and Whitby.
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CLIFTON-TAYLOR Alec
English Parish Churches as Works of Art. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous monochrome plates; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COOK G. H.
The English Cathedral through the Centuries. [Second Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, 114 half-tone plates on 96 and numerous plans (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at edges. First published in 1957, this standard study includes a select bibliography.
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CROSSLEY Fred H.
English Church Craftsmanship. An Introduction to the Work of the Mediaeval Period and some Account of later Developments. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, 2 coloured plates, 239 monochrome plates on 96 and several illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, red top, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at edges and wanting short sections at head and tail of backstrip. An important volume in Batsford's 'British Heritage' series, with striking wrap-around dustwrapper artwork by Brian Cook. First published in 1941.
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