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AMBLER S.O.
The Story of Lambeth told to Children. With a Preface by Mrs. Randall Davidson.
Sm. 8vo., cloth, a very good copy.
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NAYLER] [G.
A Collection of Coats of Arms borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Glocester [Gloucester]. RARE GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARMORIAL IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
Sm. folio, First and Sole Edition, with copper-engraved illustrated title and 62 fine copper-engraved plates showing 372 coats of arms, some mild age-staining (mainly marginal) and a few leaves with inoffensive worming in lower blank margin; publisher's boards, cloth back, very neatly recased, new paper label, a very good, relatively clean copy. This copy is complete with all plates; it has been bound without the introduction and list of subscribers that are sometimes present.This very scarce work is generally attributed (including Halkett & Laing) to Sir George Nayler, Garter King-at-Arms, but DNB states 'it was in reality the work of one Ames, an engraver at Bristol', an opinion shared by Moule. Anderson adds that the arms are taken 'chiefly from Atkyns's and Rudder's histories'.The title-vignette shows Time as an angel supporting the ancient arms of the City of Gloucester with the cathedral in the distance.Anderson p.106; Austin 12084; Moule DCXCII (p.469); Upcott Gloucestershire VIII (p.264).
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LARKING] [L.B.
A Description of the Heart-Shrine in Leybourne Church. with some Account of Sir Roger de Leyburn and his Connection with the Wars of the Barons in the Thirteenth Century. A Letter to Thomas Godfrey Faussett. 75 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Folio, First Edition thus, with frontispiece, half-title, title and text in red and black, coloured engraved plate, engraved plate in monochrome, and illustrations and full-page pedigree in the text; original half roan, marbled boards, gilt back, gilt top, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, uncut, joints very lightly rubbed else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 75 COPIES FOR PRESENTATION ONLY. Reprinted with additional notes from 'Archaeologia Cantiana', vol. V. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Bennett, p. 240.
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ARBER Muriel A.
Landslips near Lyme Regis. Presidential Address delivered 2 March 1973. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Second Edition, with 9 photographs and several diagrams in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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BARNES Julia
Barnstaple Yesterday. Over 160 Photographs from the 1860's onwards. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1980. Scarce
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RAYNE.
Rayne. From Early Times to the Present Day. By the Rayne Branch of the Workers Educational Association. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates on 4, several illustrations in the text and a folding map; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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WEST] [W.
Tavern Anecdotes, and Reminiscences of the Origin of Signs, Clubs, Coffee-Houses, Streets, City Companies, Wards, etc, intended as a Lounge-Book for Londoners and their Country Cousins. By One of the Old School.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece after Eckstein, engraved and printed titles (the former by Heath) and a folding plate containing twenty-two humorous depictions of London's 'tavern clubs', frontispiece, engraved title and folding plate very lightly damp-marked; mid-nineteenth century half morocco, marbled boards, gilt back, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, covers a little age-marked, corners lightly bruised, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down and original endpapers preserved, a very good, tight copy of a very scarce work. The frontispiece portrays Christopher Brown, Secretary to the 'Free & Easy Counsellors under the Cauliflower' who were predominantly (and most appropriately) booksellers. The folding plate affords us such delights as 'The Belle Sauvage', 'The Tanner of Joppa' and 'George and the Dragon'. Even then, it seems, the tavern was a haven of tranquillity for the hard-pressed professional male. SCARCE. We can trace no other edition, though a popular work with the title 'Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings' was compiled for Charles Hindley and issued in several editions during the 70s and 80s.
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RYE
Adams' Guide to Rye and District. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 46 plates, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and a folding map; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. This uncommon and unusually detailed guide includes a chapter on 'Smuggling: Ancient and Modern'.
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ANDERSON J. Corbet
Croydon Pre-Historic & Roman. SIGNED SUBSCRIBER'S COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with title and first page of text in red and black, 8 plates (all original blank guards present) and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, two blank preliminaries mildly browned; original decorative terracotta cloth, sides with double Oxford frame border in black enclosing title and tool in gilt, gilt back, upper hinge cracked at title (but binding entirely firm and sound), joints lightly rubbed else a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER SAMUEL ASH OF PORTLAND ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, AND BEARS HIS SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. John Corbet Anderson was perhaps the greatest, and certainly the most prolific, authority on the history of the town. This work is the first of four linked volumes, published privately by subscription, covering aspects of the town's past, but each volume is complete in itself.Subscriber's copies of any of Anderson's works are notably uncommon.
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ASHBOURNE. DOVEDALE. MANIFOLD VALLEY
Ashbourne, Dovedale and the Manifold Valley. Designed and produced by the 'Come-to-Derbyshire' Association. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, text in black and colours, numerous photographs in the text and a folding map; original pictorial wrappers, very lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
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ANDERSON J. Corbet
The Roman City of Uriconium at Wroxeter, Salop. Illustrative of the History and Social Life of our Romano-British Forefathers. With numerous Cuts. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with title in red ands black, 10 engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), and very numerous wood-engravings in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original maroon cloth, upper board with triple frame border stopped at corners by rosettes all in gilt, the frame enclosing an elaborately blocked panel containing a Greek key frame surrounding title all in gilt, gilt back, bevelled edges, brown endpapers, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. A LOVELY COPY. Anderson, p. 250; Bonser 7253; Lyell, p.106.
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BADDELEY St. Clair
A Post-Roman Settlement near Frampton on Severn. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., with 2 plates on 1 and a full-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society', vol. 50.
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GOODMAN P.
Moses Montefiore. SPLENDID SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE W H LAPTHORNE COLLECTION
8vo., First Edition, with an engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 7 plates; most attractively bound in green half morocco, back with five raised bands, second compartment framed and lettered in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, joints a trifle rubbed, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. This work was published only in the US and is subsequently very scarce in the UK. This copy was formerly in the library of W.H. ('Bill') Lapthorne, the notable Kentish writer and historian and bears his pictorial bookplate on front paste-down. A helpful typed note outlining the bibliographical and topographical importance of the work is tipped-in to a blank preliminary. Montefiore, the world-renowned philanthropist, resided at East Cliff Lodge, Ramsgate and was well-known throughout Thanet for his local generosity. A UNIQUE PRESENTATION AND ASSOCIATION COPY
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HINKLEY] [H.
Easebourne. Its Church and Priory. NEAT FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 3 plates on 2 as frontispiece, and 12 plates on 6; original pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped edges, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
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ANTROBUS Jocelyn J.
Bishop's Hatfield. Some Memories of its Past. Seventh Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Seventh Edition, with frontispiece, 5 plates and plan in the text, half-title faintly spotted; original wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. First issued in 1912.
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YOULTON] [R .R. J.
Tintagel and Boscastle, North Cornwall. Official Souvenir Guide. 23rd Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Twenty-Third Edition, with numerous photographs and a double-page map in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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CHARLES CLOSE SOCIETY
Projections and Origins. Collected Writings of Brian Adams. Edited by Roger Hellyer and Christopher Higley.
8vo., First Edition, with 4 pages of illustrations; card covers, a near fine copy.
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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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BEATTIE Rev. Preb. E.H.
The Parish Church of St. Mary-the-Virgin, Ross. A Short Guide for the Use of Visitors and Others. With additional Notes of later Enrichments to the Church. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 photographs (one full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned else a very good, clean copy.
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BOND Francis
Westminster Abbey.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 269 plates, illustrations, sketches, plans, sections and measured drawings in the text; buckram, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy. A comprehensive architectural history which considers broad fundamentals rather than details
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BONNER Arthur
Mounds at Clapham and Balham. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original wrappers, a very good copy. Reprinted from the 'Collections' of the Surrey Archaelogical Society, vol. 38. SCARCE.
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BOURNE (ed.) John
Georgian Tiverton. The Political Memoranda of Beavis Wood 1768-98. Edited with an Introduction.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Devon & Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Vol. 29.
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BARTON Margaret
Tunbridge Wells.
8vo., First Edition, title in red and black, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and a folding map; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Well-written social history of the town and spa. Bennett, p.351
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BATEMAN J.
The General Turnpike Road Act, 3 Geo. V. cap 126., with an Appendix of Forms and the Standing Orders of both Houses of Parliament with respect to private Road Bills., etc. To which are added an Index and Notes. CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
12mo., endpapers damp-marked in margins; contemporary calf reversed, tooled in blind and gilt, leather label gilt, very neatly recased, a very good, crisp, clean copy.
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BATESON H.
A Centenary History of Oldham.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 29 plates on 16 and several illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy.
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BELL S.
Solihull as it was. Compiled for Solihull Public Libraries.
Oblong 4to., First Edition, with 70 photographs in the text, small label scar on rear wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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HOPKINS Gordon
Joseph Bentley's History of Worcestershire written in 1840 and viewed in recent Times by Gordon Hopkins. Including a Section on Dudley and its Mines and Canals. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) and a double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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MILLES Dr.
Observations on an Inscription in the Church of Sunning-Hill, Berks.
Single leaf, 4to., on laid paper, with a facsimile [of the inscription] engraved on wood in the text; disbound, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. Extracted from the 'Journal of the Society of Antiquaries'. The author's paper was read before the Society on 25 February 1768.
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TWYFORD
Road Map of Twyford and District. Presented with the Compliments of Pike & Smith of Twyford. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Large folding road map printed in green on paper measuring 16.0 x 19.0 ins (approx. 40.5 x 48.0 cms) folding in 12 panels to 8.5 x 3.5 ins (approx. 21.5 x 9.0 cms); original printed wrappers, folded as issued, yapped edges, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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BIDGOOD R. F.
Two Villages [Mortehoe and Woolacombe]. The Story of Mortehow and Woolacombe. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 10 photographs in the text and large folding map; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Deceptively detailed and several times reprinted. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE. Brockett, 4580.
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BONNER Arthur
The Name 'Marylebone' and Cordwainer Ward: its History and Topography. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Offprinted from the 'Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society'. SCARCE.
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BONNER Arthur
The Name of 'Chelsea'. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Offprinted from the 'Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society'. SCARCE
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BLIGH Eric
Tooting Corner.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 3 plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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BOGGIS R.J.E.
A History of the Diocese of Exeter. IN HALF MOROCCO
8vo., First [Sole] Edition, on laid paper; attractively bound in modern burgundy half morocco, gilt back, a splendid copy. The standard reference, including chronological table, bibliography and list of subscribers. Scarce. The list of subscribers contains 93 entries. Brockett, 5320.
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BOOKER J.
Memorials of the Church in Prestwich. Being a Contribution towards the History of the Parent Church of the Parish. .
Sm. 4to., First and Sole Edition, with a lithographed frontispiece, 4 lithographed plates and and an engraved plan, lengthy nineteenth century inscription on front free endpaper; original brown grained cloth, boards with frame border enclosing an elaborate decorative frame all in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, uncut and partially unopened, yellow endpapers, short split in upper joint at head of backstrip with very minor loss (not affecting lettering), covers unevenly faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. With the list of subscribers at rear, the separately printed errata slip mounted on first page of text and the binder's ticket of Bone & Son on rear paste-down. The inscription on front endpaper describes the author as a close friend of the writer's mother's family and provides an account of his intended and actual marriages, the former to the writer's mother's sister and the latter to a daughter of the Bishop of Manchester. There is also on this page a pencilled signature of '**** Barratt' who may well be related to one of the two Barratts named in the list of subscribers. Extremely scarce. Not recorded by Anderson.
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BOON George C.
Roman Silchester. The Archaeology of a Romano-British Town. Foreword by His Grace the Duke of Welllington. Introduction by Mrs. M. Aylwin Cotton. NEAR FINE REVIEW COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates, illustrations in the text and folding plan; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted at fold-ins. PUBLISHER'S REVIEW COPY WITH SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED.
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BOSTON Cecilia
The History of Compton in Surrey.
4to.,Second and Best Edition, with a frontispiece and 27 plates; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy. This re-issue of the original edition of 1933 includes a short account for the succeeding years. With a 16pp guide to Compton Parish Church loosely inserted
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BROOKE Richard
Visits to Fields of Battle in England of the Fifteenth Century. to which are added some miscellaneous Tracts and Papers upon Archaeological Subjects. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece, title in red and black, and 3 engraved plates (all original tissue guards present) depicting plans of battles, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, frontispiece and title lightly spotted; original publisher's diced cloth, uncut, neatly rebacked in calf gilt, an unusually bright, clean copy. With the 'Additions and Corerections' slip bound in. The battle-plans depict Shrewsbury, Stoke and Towton. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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BRADLEY A.G.
Highways and Byways in North Wales. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson.
8vo., with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations in the text and a double-page map, neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, yellow top, backstrip a little faded (but all lettering entirely legible), a good, clean copy. First published in 1898.
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BRADWELL-JUXTA-MARE
The ancient Chapel of St. Peter-ad-Murum, Bradwell-juxta-Mare, Essex.. Built by Saint Cedd, Apostle of Essex, circa AD 654. [With a Foreword by the Bishop of Chelmsford]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 3 full-page illustrations and a plan in the text; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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BRAUN Hugh
Earliest Ruislip. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 4 plates, an illustration in the text and 2 folding maps, neat signature on front inner wrapper; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Reprinted from 'Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society', New Series, Vol. VII, Part I. VERY SCARCE IN THIS FORM.
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BRERETON Austin
The Story of Old Whitehall. With a Note of the Whitehall Rooms and the Hotel Metropole. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., on laid paper, with frontispiece and 16 plates; original wrappers, sewed as issued, embossed in gilt, backstrip a trifle worn else a remarkably clean copy. SCARCE.
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BRIDE H. N.
Old Leigh. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 7 full-page photographs in the text; original printed wrappers lettered in black, a near fine copy. Museum Handbook No. 12. SCARCE IN THIS EDITION. Powell, p.240.
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THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITURE OF GREAT BRITIAN AND IRELAND
Memoirs illustrative of the History and antiquities of Bristol, and the Western ounties of Great Britain. With some other Communications, made to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Bristol.
vo., First Edition, with 30 plates (one coloured and 2 tinted), 5 plans, a folding coloured map and very numerous engraved illustrations in the text; handsomely bound in half calf, marbled boards, back gilt with four raised bands, leather label, marbled edges, a fresh, clean copy. SCARCE. The great majority of the work relates to the city itself and includes a number of important accounts, notably Ormerod's 'On British and Roman Remains', Bindon's 'Desecrated and Destroyed Churches of Bristol' and Winston's 'Painted Glass at Bristol'. The volume also contains a well-illustrated architectural appraisal of Sherborne Minster, Dorset, by Petit.
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THEATRE ROYAL BRISTOL
Theatre Royal, King Street, Bristol. Founded 1766. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 7 plates on 4; original wrappers printed in red, sepia-toned photograph mounted on upper wrapper, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. The Theatre Royal, Bristol, is the oldest building in England with a continuous existence as a theatre. It was designated a Building of National Historic Importance in 1942 and placed in trust for the nation. SCARCE.
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BRITISH RAIL
Cavalcade Remembered - 1925. Companion Volume to 'Cavalcade Reflections' and 'Cavalcade Retrospect'. [Introduction by Allan P. McLean].
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and a full-page map; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Ottley, 8036.
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BRITTON John
The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Hereford. With biographical Anecdotes of eminent Persons connected with the Establishment. SMALL PAPER EDITION IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
4to., with engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles (the latter with woodcut vignette), 15 engraved plates and an engraved plan, some minor foxing as usual, rather heavier on frontispiece and engraved title, text remarkably clean; ORIGINAL BOARDS, UPPER BOARD WITH PRINTED PAPER LABEL, uncut, expertly rebacked to style with new paper label, a very good, bright, crisp copy of a scarce work. The thirteenth and penultimate volume of Britton's informative and well-researched cathedral histories, famous also for their accurate and highly detailed plates, especially those by Mackenzie (none in this volume) and Le Keux. The histories were issued first in parts, then as single volumes (as here) and finally in a collected edition. Bibliographical description is complicated further by the fact that each history appeared in up to five states of issue. THIS IS THE SMALL PAPER EDITION OF ONE OF THE SCARCEST IN THE SERIES. IT WAS PROBABLY BOUND EARLY FROM LATE PARTS, SINCE THE GENERALLY ACCEPTED DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE SINGLE VOLUME IS 1834. VERY SCARCE IN THE PUBLICHER'S BOARDS.
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BRODRICK G.C.
Memorials of Merton College with biographical Notices of the Wardens and Fellows.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a large folding plan coloured in outline, wanting front free endpaper, rear free endpaper browned; original series binding of purple cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing Society emblem in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a bright, firm copy. Oxford Historical Society, vol. IV. Sold from an institution with its release plate on front paste-down, cancellation stamp on title verso and neat stamp on lower edge. Cordeaux & Merry, 7743.
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BRYANT L. S.
County Churches: Suffolk. [Complete set].
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces and 40 plates, some very slight and wholly inoffensive spotting; original green patterned cloth, upper boards elaborately blocked and lettered in blind to a Celtic design, gilt backs, one backstrip moderately sunned as often (but all lettering entirely legible), a very good, clean, crisp set. Vol. Western Division [half-title: 'The Churches of West Suffolk']; Vol. II: Eastern Division [half-title: 'The Churches of East Suffolk'].George Allen's 'County Churches' series is absurdly underrated. In the present case over 530 churches are described (albeit briefly) and the work as whole forms a delightful, pocket-size compendium. Uncommon as a set, especially in this condition. Steward, 2250.
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BULLAR J.
A Companion in a Tour round Southampton. Comprehending various Particulars of the New Forest, Lymington, Christchurch, Ringwood, Romsey, Winchester, Bishop's Waltham, Titchfield, Gosport, Portsmouth. Fourth Edition. IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
12mo., Fourth Edition; ORIGINAL BOARDS, uncut, very neatly rebacked in boards to style, later paper label, boards somewhat age-stained else a remarkably clean, crisp copy. With the contemporary booksller's label of T. James of Southampton. LAST AND BEST EDITION. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. Anderson p.120
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