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DEFOE Daniel
A Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain. With which is included, a Set of Maps of England and Wales, divided into Counties; and a Map of Scotland. Composed by Hermann Moll. With an Introduction FIRST COMPLETE RE-ISSUE. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with 48 plate-reproductions (a number double-page) of Moll's maps, endpapers and fore-edges lightly spotted; marbled boards, cloth backs gilt, gilt tops, uncut, white cloth backs mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES. The first complete reissue since 1778 of a work of enormous importance to the scholar of eighteenth century England. In it Defoe writes of the social habits of the people, and the products, industry, trade and commerce of the various parts of the country, as well as describing the various places of historic or other importance.
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DELDERFIELD Eric R.
The Visitor's Brief Guide to the Torbay Area of Devon. Written and compiled by Eric R. Delderfield. Third Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and a double-page map in the text, some light spotting; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. The first edition appeared in 1960. Brockett 17940.
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DENTON W.
Records of St. Giles' Cripplegate. Giles' Cripplegate.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with folding map in pocket; cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy. Covers history, building, clergy, parish, trade history and customs of one of London's great pre-Fire City churches. Complete with the map which is almost always missing. Very scarce, especially in this condition.
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DEVON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Devon Archaeology No. 3. Dartmoor Issue. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and maps in the text, a few leaves mildly age-soiled; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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DEVONSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Archaeological Notes. Reprinted from DAS Proceedings No. 48. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, a fine copy. Contains Robinson, Griffiths & Cosford: The Corringdon Multiple Stones Rows; Henig: A Roman Signet Ring from Pennslyvania, Exeter; Henig: A Roman Gold Serpent Ring from Heath Farm, Spreyton; Keen: Fifteenth-Century Floor Tiles from Spreyton and Throwleigh.
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DEVONSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Devon Archaeological Society. Proceedings No. 48. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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DEVONSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Devon Archaeological Society. Proceedings No. 49. 1991
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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DEVONSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Devon Archaeological Society. Proceedings No. 50. 1992
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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OTTER VALLEY
The Lower Otter Valley. Sketches on Local History. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with illustrations, maps and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, cloth back, a near fine copy.
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DITCHFIELD P.H.
English Villages. Second Edition.
8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and numerous illustrations in the text; original blue cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 40pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Ditchfield's classic study was first published in 1901.
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CHARMOUTH
Charmouth. The Official Guide. Published by Authority of Charmouth Parish Council. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., with photographs and double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
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DOWDING M.K.
Old Wiltshire Market Towns and Villages. Illustrated by M.E. Sargent.
4to., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and numerous line illustrations in the text, endpapers lightly browned, inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial boards, lowest quarter of backstrip rubbed, boards a little age-soiled and scuffed at edges else a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. With neat personal bookplate. Goddard, p.29.
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DRUETT W.W.
Harrow through the Ages. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, and numerous plates and maps; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. A Prinknash Abbey copy with its bookplate on front paste-down.
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EARDLEY F.S.
Horsted Keynes, Sussex. The Church and Parish of St. Giles.
8vo., with frontispiece and 8 plates, wanting front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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EARWAKER J.P.
The History of the Church and Parish of St. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester. Mary-on-the-Hill, Chester. Together with an Account of the new Church of St. Mary-without-the-Walls. FOUNDER'S COPY
Sm. folio, First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, 10 plates and several illustrations (including blazons) in the text; original pebble-grain cloth gilt, blue leather back framed and lettered in black, gilt top, black endpapers, uncut, backstrip scuffed (but most gilt wholly legible), upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), else a very good, bright, clean copy. Scarce, especially in this condition.
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EASTRY
Eastry Village Appraisal [1991]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map as frontispiece and 3 maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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DUIGNAN W. H.
Worcestershire Place Names. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, sides with triple frame border in black, gilt back, gilt top, bevelled boards, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
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DUNCAN A.G.
The Long Bridge of Bideford and Bideford under the restored Monarchy.
8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, endpapers browned; cloth gilt, gilt back, upper hinge cracked at Foreword but quite sound, corners lightly bruised else a very good copy of an uncommon work. These two scarce pamphlets are reprinted here by Marion Grieg Hedden (the author's daughter) from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art'
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DUNNING G. C.
Bronze Age Settlements and a Saxon Hut near Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 6 plates on 3, numerous illustrations and sketches in the text and a folding plan; original wrappers, covers lightly browned else a near fine copy. Offprinted from 'The Antiquaries Journal', vol. XII, no.3. SCARCE.
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DUNSTAN (ed.) G.R.
The Register of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, 1420-1455. Registrum Commune. Vol. IV [this volume only].
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Devon & Cornwall Record Society, New Series, Vol. 16 (in conjunction with the Canterbury & York Society).
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COUNTY DURHAM
The Victoria History of the County of Durham. Edited by William Page. Volume II. THE ORIGINAL EDITION: 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, ORIGINAL EDITION, with title and series title in red and black, frontispiece in photogravure, 7 plates, a plan and a full-page map in the text, paper brittle as usual; original series binding of decorative red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, THE VAST MAJORITY NO LONGER IN PRIVATE HANDS. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate on front paste-down, very small neat stamp on title and one or two preliminaries only, and inked accession panel on backstrip.
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ANON
The Beauties of England. Or, a comprehensive View of the chief Villages, Market-Towns and Cities; Antiquities; Remains of Palaces; Monasteries; Camps; and Castles; the two Universities: London and Westminster.
12mo., with an engraved folding map; contemporary speckled calf, sides with double gilt frame border, back gilt with five raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt to a floral design, calf label gilt, sprinkled edges, binding a little rubbed and worn else a very good, crisp, clean copy. With a bookplate. Anderson, p.22, records no other editions. A two-leaf catalogue of books by L. Davis and C. Reymers, Holborn, is bound in at end.
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ENGLISH L. S.
An Introduction to the Collecting and History of Whitby Prints. 210 COPIES WERE PRINTED
2 vols., folio, First and Sole Edition, with 277 reproductions of engravings and 25 head- and tail-pieces; original white buckram, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 210 COPIES.
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ERITH E.H.
Essex Parish Records, 1240-1894. With an Appendix by Hilda E.P. Grieve.
Roy. 8vo., on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 30 plates and a folding map; cloth, gilt back, a trifle rubbed but a very good copy. The work forms a companion to the 'Guide to the Essex Record Office' (1946-48) and the 'Catalogue of Maps in the Essex Record Office' (1947)
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COLCHESTER
[Official Guide to] Colchester. The Roman City of Camulodonum. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and folding map on japon in red and black; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, small label scar on front wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. A rare survival. O'Leary 1322.
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KING E.
Account of a Roman Pavement, with heat underneath it, found at Colchester. By the Rev. Dr. Griffith; communicated by Edward King in a Letter to the Secretary [of the Society of Antiquaries].
3 leaves, 4to., on laid paper, with a full-page engraved plan in the text; uncut, disbound, a remarkably crisp, clean copy ideal for framing and display. Extracted from the 'Journal of the Society of Antiquaries'. King's paper was read before the Society on 13 June 1771.
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ETON COLLEGE
The Etonian. Vol. I. October 1820 - March 1821 [5 numbers in one volume]. FIRST ISSUE OF THE ETONIAN
8vo., First Edition, with engraved title-vignette, neat contemporary signature on title; handsomely bound in contemporary half roan, marbled boards, back with six flat bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, third compartment lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in gilt and blind, red sprinkled edges, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. The signature on title is 'A Conyngham'; several members of this eminent family attended the College. The volume collects No. I (October 1820), No. II (November 1820), No. III (December 1820), No. IV (February 1821), No. V (March 1821). A second volume comprising nos. 6-10 was published in 1822 but is not present here. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Harcourt p.28 (listing the work under '1820').
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LYTE H.C.M.
A History of Eton College (1440-1910). Fourth Edition, revised throughout and greatly enlarged. [With photogravure plates from drawings by Frederick L. Griggs]. SPLENDID ASSOCIATION COPY IN SIGNED SPOTTISWOODE BINDING
Roy. 8vo., Fourth and Best Edition, with a fine portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 2 coloured plates, 7 fine monochrome plates in photogravure, 62 engraved illustrations in the text and a folding coloured map; handsomely bound in full chocolate Chieftain morocco BY SPOTTISWOODE, sides with double gilt frame border enclosing a gilt lotus leaf at corners and a gilt fleur-de-lis at centre, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and framed in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt with gilt lotus leaf jn centre, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers heightened with gilt, elaborate gilt dentelles, a superb copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The binding is signed by Spottiswoode on front paste-down. The fine photogravure plates are from drawings by Frederick L. Griggs (of 'Highways and Byways' fame). These appear here for the first and only time, replacing four of the woodcuts present in the third edition. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM R.S. DE HAVILLAND WITH HIS SIGNED AND DATED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Reginald Saumarez de Havilland ('Havvy'), Assistant Master at Eton, played a fundamental role in the development of the school's boating prowess. In 1892 he succeeded Donaldson as coach of the famous 'Eton Eight' and in the following year replaced the Eight's previously characteristic short, sharp stoke with a much longer draw on a sliding seat. He presented his ideas (and much else) n the standard work 'Elements of Rowing' (Eton, 1913). Lyte's standard history was first published in 1875 and successively updated and re-issued in 1889 and 1899. A magnificent copy in virtually fine state.
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EVANS A. A.
Friston Parish Church. St. James the Greater anciently called St. Mary the Virgin. A Short Historical Account of the Church and Parish. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations (a umber full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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EVANS John
Picture of Worthing. To which is added an Account of the adjacent Villages, and the Rides and Excursions in its Vicinity. Second Edition. Greatly enlarged, and embellished with plates. In two Volumes. FIRST SEPARATE ACCOUNT OF THE TOWN
2 vols., in 1, 12mo., Second and Best Edition, with large folding copper-engraved plate and engraved plate coloured by hand as frontispieces, 2 engraved maps (each finely coloured by hand) and a large folding engraved plan, some very light age-staining; attractively and firmly bound in mid-nineteenth century half calf, green straight-grain cloth boards, back with five flat bands, second compartment with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, last compartment with date in gilt, red edges, yellow endpapers, a remarkably clean, crisp, well-preserved copy. Evans' most notable work - the first separate account of the town, resort and vicinity - was first published in 1805 to record his sojourn there of the previous summer. The first edition would appear to be particularly scarce; we have been able to locate only two institutional copies (one in the British Library). This greatly enlarged version adds a second volume devoted to the local rides and excursions 'from the pen of a gentleman who is, from long residence, well acquainted with that part of Sussex, and who feels warmly interested in the welfare and prosperity of Worthing'. There are also extra maps and plates. Anderson, p. 285 (recording only this edition); not recorded by Upcott.
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EVANS Vivienne
Dunstable with the Priory 1100-1550. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and plans in the text, small neat personal stamp on front inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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EWELME
Guide to St. Mary's Church, Ewelme and to the Almshouse and the School. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 10 plates on 7, full-page plan and pedigrees in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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EXETER
Historic Exeter. Official Guide to the City [1955]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus, with text in brown, many sepia-toned illustrations in the text and large folding map in green and black with street index; original pictorial wrappers, front wrapper lightly spotted else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With numerous professional and trade advertisements throughout.
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FAULKNER Thomas
An Historical and Topographical Account of Fulham; including the Hamlet of Hammersmith. BRIGHT, CLEAN WORKING COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with wood-engraved title-vignette, fine engraved armorial dedication, 6 engraved plates, folding pedigree, 11 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and several engraved head- and tail-pieces, wanting frontispiece, list of plates and folding map; contemporary boards, uncut, neatly rebacked, old calf backstrip laid down, a most attractive working or reference copy. THIS COPY IS BOUND WITHOUT THE FRONTISPIECE, LIST OF PLATES AND FOLDING MAP. The engraved illustrations are by Nesbitt of Chelsea. Anderson, p.175; Upcott, p. 600.
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FEARON W.A.
The Parish Registers and Parochial Documents in the Archdeaconry of Winchester.
8vo., with a folding facsimile as frontispiece, title in red and black and 3 plates on facsimiles on 2; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, upper boards lightly creased else a very good, clean copy. THE REV. W. SIDNEY SCOTT'S COPY WITH HIS ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE AND OWNERSHIP INSCRIPTION.. The Rev. Scott (1900-1980), clergyman and lecturer, was a Trustee of the Gilbert White Museum at Selborne. From his home at Shortfield House, Frensham, he took an active interest in the history of Surrey and Hampshire. Among his works are a study of 'John Donne' (1946) and 'A Journal of the Terror' (1955).
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FELSTED SCHOOL
The Foundation Deeds of Felsted School and Charities. With introductory Note by Andrew Clark.
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece and 3 plates; cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good copy.
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FOREST ROW
Forest Row and District. Road Map. Presented with the Compliments of Powell & Partner. NEAR FINE COPY
Folding uncoloured map on paper measuring 20.0 x 23.0 ins (approx. 51.0 x 58.4 cms) folding in 21 panels to 8.5 x 3.75 ins (approx. 21.5 x 9.5 cms), original photographic wrappers, yapped edges, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements, a number illustrated.
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FORTESCUE S. E. D.
The Story of Two Villages. Great & Little Bookham. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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FINBERG H.P.R.
West-Country Historical Studies. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with several maps in the text and folding map; sage cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A collection of classic essays, including 'St. Patrick at Glastonbury' and 'The Open Field in Devon', from the Professor Emeritus of English Local History at the University of Leicester. Brockett, 26730.
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FINDON
A Short History of the Church of St. John Baptist, Findon. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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FLEMING Andrew
The Dartmoor Reaves. Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with numerous photographs, maps and diagrams in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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FOORD Edward
The Last Age of Roman Britain.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 15 plates and 3 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy. With the errata slip. The first work devoted solely to the subject and now increasingly hard to find.
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FOXELL Nigel
Amberley Church. A Critical Appreciation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. One of the most beautiful and historic villages in Sussex, Amberley has been the home of several artists including Arthur Rackham. St. Michael's Church dates from the eleventh century; this is one of the most scholarly and detailed surveys of any English parish church.
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FREEMAN Lady Winifride
Arundel Castle. [Festival of Britain Souvenir Brochure]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 12 full-page photographs and full-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at edges else a very good, clean copy.
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FRERE S. S.
An Iron Age Site at West Clandon, Surrey, and some Aspects of Iron Age and Romano-British Culture in the Wealden Area. SIGNED BY SHEPPARD FRERE
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from the Archaeological Journal, Vol. CI (1944). Extremely scarce. Bonser 5006.
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FRY, ed. Edward Alexander
A Calendar of Wills and Administrations in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Worcester. [A run of six volumes]. Edited by Edward Alexander Fry. A BRIGHT, CLEAN RUN IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
6 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, backstrips frayed and a few wrappers loose (but all bindings entirely sound), a very good, clean run. The run comprises Wills and Administrations registered Part I: 1451-1642 (1899); Wills and Administrations registered Part II: 1493-1560 (1901); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part I: 1601-1614 (1907); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part II: 1614-1625 (1907); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part III: 1628-1647 (1910); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part IV (1911). ALL VOLUMES IN THIS IMPORTANT SERIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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FRY Philip
Lancing & Sompting. A Second Selection. [Britain in Old Photographs.] NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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GALER A.M.
Norwood and Dulwich: past and present, with historical and descriptive Notes.
4to., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, 2 plates, 14 illustrations in the text and 2 maps, preliminaries lightly spotted, neat contemporary signature on title, child's pencilled scribble and drawings on endpapers; pictorial cloth, gilt back, bevelled edges, covers moderately age-marked and corners frayed else a good, sound copy.
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GIBBON Sir Gwilym
History of the London County Council 1889-1939. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with large folding frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous plates, illustrations in the text and large folding coloured map; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and with small loss at upper edge of front panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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GIBSON A.C.
The Folk-Speech of Cumberland and some Districts adjacent. Being short Stories and Rhymes in the Dialects of the West Border Counties.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, some minimal occasional spotting, rather heavier on title, trade stamp in blind and pencilled signature on reverse of front free endpaper; decorative cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, upper cover a trifle creased, light wear to head and tail of backstrip, neatly recased with new endpapers, original endpapers preserved, generally a sound, clean copy of a very scarce work.
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