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MARSH] [Catherine
English Hearts and English Hands; or, The Railway and the Trenches. Thirty-Eighth Thousand. [Preface by Frederick Chalmers]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Thirty-Eighth Thousand, with a frontispiece and plates; some light age-soiling, neat contemporary inscription on frontispiece recto; original red cloth, upper board with blind frame border enclosing gilt vignette, gilt back, neatly recased with new endpapers to style, a very good, bright, firm copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at end. Marsh's collection of topical homilies had its inception in 1853, when she went among the large contingent of railway navvies assembled in Beckenham and environs to rebuild the Crystal Place at Sydenham following the Great Exhibition of 1851. A number of the later pieces refer to the Crimean War and other contemporary events. Chalmers was sometime Rector of Beckenham. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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COX J. Charles
English Church Fittings, Furniture and Accessories. With an Introduction by Aymer Vallance. IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 273 half-tone plates from photographs in the text, tiny contemporary signature on front free endpaper; decorative purple cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter very lightly creased and frayed at edges. Nice copy of a standard reference. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
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BENINGFIELD (illus.) Gordon
Beningfield's English Farm. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured and tinted illustrations (many full-page) in the text, and pictorial endpapers; grey-green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper.
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GOUDGE Elizabeth
The White Witch. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in blue full morocco, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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LAMBORN E.A. Greening
The English Parish Church. Its Architecture and Antiquities. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text; original buff pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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WEINBAUM Martin
English Borough Charters 1307-1660.
8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down and neat blind stamp on title.
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CHAMPNEYS Arthur Charles
Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture with some Notice of similar or related Work in England, Scotland and Elsewhere.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 114 pages of plates; original green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, lower hinge starting else a very good, clean copy. A standard reference, and uncommon in this condition.
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THORNTON Robert
Morte Arthure, or The Death of Arthur. Edited from Robert Thornton's MS in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral by Edmund Brock. [A New Edition, 1871]. [EETS, 1937]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., small neat signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of brown cloth, upper board lettered and blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. First published by EETS in 1865, with this revised text in 1871. SCARCE.
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MEYER Peter
English Cathedrals. With a Foreword by Geoffrey Grigson. Photographs b y Martin Hurlimann. Descriptive Text by Peter Meyer. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio. First Edition, with numerous fine full-page photographs and smaller plans in the text, endpapers lightly spotted; grey tweed cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown; a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of an elusive survey, particularly scarce in this condition.
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WILLIAMSON J.A.
The Voyages of the Cabots and the English Discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII. 1050 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on Japanese vellum, with a folding map as frontispiece, title-vignette in blue and black, and 12 maps; original blue buckram, ivory buckram back lettered in gilt, uncut, brown silk marker, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1050 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY OUT-OF-SERIES). Sold from an institution with its stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title. The seventh publication of the Argonaut Press, printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. The title-vignette is by William Monk.
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ANDERSON Mary D.
Misericords. Misericords. Medieval Life Woodcarving. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates on 48 and an illustration in the text; paper boards, as issued, a very good, bright clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. King Penguin, 72
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HUSSEY Christopher
English Country Houses. Early Georgian 1715-1760.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 465 fine photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter frayed and creased at edges. Hussey's masterly trilogy is the definitive study. This first volume was followed by 'Mid Georgian 1760-1800' (1956) and 'Late Georgian 1800-1840' (1958). Each volume is complete in itself.
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BETJEMAN John
English Scottish and Welsh Landscape 1700-c.1860. Chosen by John Betjeman and Geoffrey Taylor. With Original Lithographs by John Piper. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 12 fine full-page coloured lithographs by Piper, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth after design by Piper, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with very minor loss (nowhere affecting lettering) at extremities. Published in the series 'New Excursions into English Poetry' edited by W.J. Turner and Sheila Shannon. VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THE DUSTWRAPPER. Peterson A12a; Stapleton C75.
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PARIS Henry John
English Watercolour Painters. [Britain in Pictures series]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 21 monochrome illustrations in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 88.
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PEACOCK (ed.) W.
Selected English Essays. Chosen and Arranged by W. Peacock. [Worlds Classics Edition]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., original series binding of navy blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at head of backstrip. WC 32
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ESDAILE Katherine A.
English Church Monuments 1510 to 1840. With an Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 148 half-tone plates from photographs on 80 and very numerous illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in red, blue top mildly faded else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Katharine Esdaile's study forms a sequel to Crossley's English Church Monuments (1921) and is both well-illustrated and scholarly.Fifoot, SB26.
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ELLIS Henry
Original Letters illustrative of English History; including numerous Royal Letters. Third Series. Vol. III [this volume only]. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo., First Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black; attractively bound contemporary calf, sides with gilt frame border, back with three raised bands tooled in gilt, second and third compartments with brown leather labels lettered in gilt, gilt top, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, asmall tear at headband, joint lightly rubbed else a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp copy. This volume includes letters CCLVII to CCCCIII. The frontispiece is a fine reproduction of the portrait of Henry VIII at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.. It is engraved by Cook after Holbein the Younger. SCARCE.
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COOK G.H.
English Collegiate Churches of the Middle Ages. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, free endpapers browned; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and frayed at edges. A standard reference. SCARCE
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BOWEN Elizabeth
English Novelists. [Britain in Pictures series]. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Third Impression, with 8 coloured plates and 16 monochrome illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. First published in 1942. Carney 23.
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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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