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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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DEFOE Daniel
A Plan of the English Commerce. Being a Compleat Prospect of the Trade of this Nation, as well the Home Trade as the Foreign. In Three Parts. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus; pale blue buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, backstrip lightly sunned else a clean, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES. VERY SCARCE.
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WYMER Norman
English Country Crafts. A Survey of their Development from Early Times to the Present Day. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 146 monochrome plates on 64 and 2 illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, orange endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. In this, one of the best single-volume compilations, Wymer provides a deceptively detailed guide to over sixty traditional country crafts. The well-chosen photographs illustrate many.
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GOUDGE Elizabeth
The White Witch. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly rubbed at extremities. With dustwrapper artwork by C.H. Richard. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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COX J. Charles
English Church Fittings, Furniture and Accessories. With an Introduction by Aymer Vallance. BRIGHT, CLEAN WORKING COPY
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and 273 half-tone plates from photographs in the text; decorative purple cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, covers moderately age-faded (but all lettering entirely legible), a firm, clean working copy. A standard reference.
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COUPE Robert L.M.
Illustrated Editions of the Works of William Morris in English. A Descriptive Bibliography. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous reproductions in the text; cloth, gilt back, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Published in association with the British Library.
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YARWOOD Doreen
The English Home. A Thousand Years of Furnishing and Decoration. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, 32 plates in monochrome and numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at upper edge of front panel. Nice copy of a standard reference first published in 1956.
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BOUNDY Wyndham S.
Bushell and Harman of Lundy. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., with illustrations and full-page map in the text; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Graphic accounts of Civil War coinage of the period Charles I 1642-49, together with a unique law case concerning the issue of illegal currency.
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DOUGHTY Oswald
English Lyric in the Age of Reason. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter heavily browned at backstrip and rear panel. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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LANGLAND William
The Vision of Piers Plowman. Newly rendered into modern English by Henry W. Wells. With an Introduction by Nevill Coghill and Notes by the Translator. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus; brown cloth, gilt back, brown top, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Printed at the Alcuin Press. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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WARD Ida C.
The Phonetics of English. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with numerous illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy.
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BOND Francis
The Chancel of English Churches. The Altar, Reredos, Lentern Veil, Communion Table, Altar Rails, Houseling, Cloth, Piscina, Credence, Sedilia, Aumbrey, Sacrament House, Easter Sepulchre, Squint, etc. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and over 220 half-tone plates, line drawings and other illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front paste-down; original blue buckram, upper board and backstrip lettered in darker blue, a near fine copy. A STANDARD REFERENCE, AND VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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TOOLEY R. V.
English Books with Coloured Plates 1790- to 1860. A Bibliographical Account of the most important Books illustrated by English Artists in Colour Aquatint and Colour Lithography. [Revised Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition thus; blue buckram, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of this invaluable reference, first published in 1935 and here reissued in greatly expanded form. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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[Sale Catalogue of] Civil War Papers of King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine and Sir Thomas Fairfax. 21 July 1980. Sale code: nil. CIVIL WAR PAPERS OF CHARLES I
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and facsimiles in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The sale comprises 58 lots from the collection of Colonel Alan Gandar Dower, among the finest letters and papers from the English Civil War to have been offered for sale at auction.
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AITKEN George A.
An English Garner. Later Stuart Tracts. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes Petty's Political Arithmetic (1690) and various pieces by Defoe and Arbuthnot. A complement to Firth's earlier volume covering the years 1603-1693. See Davies 165.
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ASHLEY Maurice
The Battle of Naseby and the Fall of King Charles I. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 6 coloured plates (2 double-page), 63 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in dustwrapper.
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BROOKS F.W.
The English Naval Forces 1199-1272. With a Foreword by Professor Geoffrey Callender. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 2 plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SANFORD John Langton
Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, last few leaves lightly spotted at margins; original navy coarse-grain cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly recased, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. With nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of T.B. Cornish on front paste-down, and 8pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Davies 209.
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JONES G.F. Trevallyn
Saw-Pit Wharton. The Political Career from 1640 to 1691 of Philip, fourth Lord Wharton. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece; red buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEVENS Christopher Claxton
18th Century English Furniture. The Norman Adams Collection. [Second, Revised Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece, very numerous fine coloured and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) throughout, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the separately published errata slip. Enlarged version of the original edition of 1983.
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INGLEBY Richard
Christopher Wood. An English Painter. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates; maroon cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. SIGNED COPIES ARE VERY SCARCE.
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REDGRAVE Samuel
A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists. With Notices of their Lives and Work. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1878.
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BATTISCOMBE Georgina
English Picnics. [CBC Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition thus, with plates; green cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HUTCHINSON Mrs. Lucy
The Grand Quarrel. From the Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson; Mrs Alice Thornton; Ann, Lady Fanshawe; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; Anne, Lady Halkett, and the Letters of Brilliana, Lady Harley. Edited and introduced by Roger Hudson. NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with plates; navy cloth, boards and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, blue top, pale blue endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
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HONEY W.B.
English Glass. [Britain in Pictures series]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 26 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, contemporary signature on front paste-down; original series binding of pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 99.
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WESTLAKE Ray
English and Welsh Infantry Regiments. An Illustrated Record of Service. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
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KIRK Rev. John
Biographies of English Catholics in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by John Hungerford Pollen and Edwin Burton. IN FULL MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); handsomely bound in full dark green morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, original backstrip gilt mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM.
Victorian Church Art. Exhibition Catalogue November 1971 - January 1972. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous photographs in monochrome throughout; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Detailed catalogue of a major and comprehensive exhibition.
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WORDSWORTH Christopher
The Old Service-Books of the English Church. [Antiquary's Books]. FIRM,CLEAN WORKING COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 37 plates in monochrome, title and fore-edges very lightly spotted, text block clean and crisp; original series binding of decorative red buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, backstrip faded and chipped at headband, joints rubbed else a good, firm working copy. Sold from an institution with its press-mark and pocket on front endpapers. With publisher's 40pp general catalogue bound in at rear. One of the scarcest titles in Methuen's excellent 'Antiquary's Books' edited by J. Charles Cox.
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SPENCE Basil
Phoenix at Coventry. The Building of a Cathedral. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, 11 coloured plates on 10, 34 monochrome plates on 32, a full-page facsimile in the text and decorative endpapers; yellow cloth gilt, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter a little browned at backstrip.
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JONES Lawrence E.
The Observer's Book of Old English Churches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 4 coloured plates, 44 plates, numerous illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Observer 36. Printing code 1656.165. 'One of the better books of the series' (Marren & Carter). Marren & Carter, p.164.
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JOHNSON, ed. Barry C.
Ho, for the Great West!. and other original Papers to mark the 25th Anniversary of the English Westerners' Society. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
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