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PORTEOUS Crichton
Teamsman. With Wood Engravings by Kingsley Cook. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with engraved title-vignette, numerous wood-engravings and 2 full-page plans in the text; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly rubbed at etremities and with minor loss (just affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Sequel to 'Farmer's Creed'. Cook's engravings enhance this wonderful account of pre-war life in the Derbyshire hill country. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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PRESSEY, ed. W.J.
The Church Plate of the County of Essex. Described by G. Montagu Benton, F.W. Galpin and W.J. Pressey. Edited, with an Introduction, by the Rev. W.J. Pressey. With Illustrations from Photographs by the Rev. Canon F.W. Galpin. [Sole Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY WITH LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, 26 fine plates (each depicting a number of examples), title very lightly spotted; blue cloth, ivory buckram back lettered in black, a near fine copy. With the list of subscribers. One of the best of the county church plate inventories. Arranged by parish, it includes appendices of plate despoiled from monastic houses, inventories of church goods made in the reign of Edward VI, records of plate left by will, and a chronological list of plate. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Powell, p.14.
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POWELL J.
Holt [Clwyd] and its Records through the Centuries. olt [Clwyd] and its Records through the Centuries.
4to., Second Edition, with 16 plates on 8; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly dust-soiled and backstrip mildly scuffed else a very good, bright, clean copy. Scarce re-issue of the original edition of 1973..
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REGGLER Daphne
Odiham Cottage Hospital 1910-1999. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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REID Hilda
One Hundred Years in a Chelsea Parish. A History and Survey of Christ Church. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Sm. 4to., with frontispiece and plates; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION AND SIGNATURE ON TITLE.
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READ D.H.M.
Highways and Byways in Hampshire. With Illustrations by Arthur B. Connor. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), numerous illustrations in the text and a folding map; cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely firm and sound) else a very good, bright, clean copy. With publisher's 4pp series catalogue bound in at end.
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BRECKNOCK SOCIETY
An Address presented to Professor Emeritus William Rees by the Brecknock Society, 12 October 1968. n Address presented to Professor Emeritus William Rees by the Brecknock Society, 12 October 1968.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 4 plates, several illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text and a folding map; cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Includes a bibliography of Rees' works and list of subscribers.
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ROBERTS H.
The Tramp's Handbook. Illustrated by William Pascoe. REMARKABLE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial diced green limp cloth gilt, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, joints lightly rubbed else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With 4pp publisher's catalogue at end. 'The Country Handbooks. Vol. I'. Includes a wealth of information and advice on wayfaring, food, cooking, signage, furniture, implements and other aspects of self-sufficiency on the road. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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RIDGWAY R.
A Short History of Kensington and Past Notabilities of Kensington. Short History of Kensington and Past Notabilities of Kensington.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition; boards lettered in black, cloth back, covers very lightly age-marked else a very good, clean copy.
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REID Helen
Bristol & Co. [The Story of Bristol's Long Running Businesses 1710 to the Present Day]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs ( a number full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
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RICHMOND Professor Ian A.
Hull Museum Publication No. 215. The Roman Pavements at Rudston, East Riding. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with 4 plates (one coloured) and a full-page plan in the text; original wrappers printed in green and black, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Hull Museum Publication No. 215.
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ROBERTS Henry D.
The Book of Brighton (Official Guide). Seventeenth Edition, revised. Published for the Publicity Committee of the Brighton Corporation. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Seventeenth Edition, with a large folding map as frontispiece (some folds neatly repaired) very numerous colour and monochrome photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers very lightly age-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean, firm copy. Deceptively detailed guide with very numerous period trade advertisements. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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RICKWORD George
Social Life in Bygone Colchester from the Revolution to the Municipal Reform Act. Being a Series of Sketches contributed to 'The Essex County Telegraph'. A RARE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and 6 plates; original brown grained wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, upper wrapper lettered in black with small mounted photograph, yapped edges, staples very lightly rusted else a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. In this state a rare survival. O'Leary 1398; Powell p.180.
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THAMES BARRAGE ASSOCIATION
Dam the Thames: A Matter of Sanitation, Comfort and Economy. A Plan for a Tideless River in London. Third Edition.
4to., with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly age-browned else a very good, clean copy. With a reprint of a relevant page from 'The Times' loosely inserted. One of the plates is a striking full-page view of the Thames Estuary looking downstream from Richmond to the sea at a height of 21,000 feet.. Scarce in this condition.
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RIMMER Alfred
Rambles round Eton and Harrow. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with 52 engraved plates; boards, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. With publisher's catalogue bound in at end
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RIMMER Alfred
Rambles round Rugby. With an Introductory Chapter by the Rev. W.H. Payne Smith.
Roy. 8vo., with a frontispiece, title-vignette and 70 illustrations in the text, some light spotting to first few leaves; cloth gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers a little marked and faded, joints weak but sound else a good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES.
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RIMMER Alfred
A History of Shrewsbury School. From the Blakeway MSS., and many ther Sources. Illustrated by twenty-six Views specially drawn on Wood by Alfred Rimmer.
4to., with a frontispiece, 3 plates and 22 illustrations in the text; original cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, obverse of frontispiece and rear blank preliminary browned, upper corners just slightly bruised else an EXCEPTIONALLY BRIGHT, FINE COPY. The definitive history of the period 1551-1888.
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ROBINSON Tim
Stones of Aran. Pilgrimage. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PAPERBACK
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with maps in the text, page-edges lightly tanning; original pictorial wrappers, front wrapper very lightly age-creased but no creases to backstrip, a very good, clean copy. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
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ROBINSON David
Beneficed Clergy in Cleveland and the East Riding 1306-1340. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates and a large folding map; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Published for the University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research as Borthwick Papers, No. 37.
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ROBERTS John
The Younger Sir John Gilbert (c.1575-1608). NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art', vol. C.
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ROBINS W.
Paddington: Past and Present. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; attractively bound in half calf, marbled boards, gilt back, sage endpapers, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE. Anderson p.205
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ROBINSON Tim
Stones of Aran. Pilgrimage. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION IN SOLANDER CASE
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with maps in the text, page-edges lightly tanning; original pictorial wrappers, front wrapper very lightly age-creased, a very good, clean copy bow preserved in custom-made board solander case. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
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ROGERS (ed.) J.E.T.
Oxford City Documents, financial and judicial, 1268-1665.
8vo., on laid paper; cloth gilt, gilt back, gtil top, uncut, a very good copy. With an armorial bookplate. Oxfordshire Historical Society, vol. XVIII
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ROGERS T.E.
Records of Yarlington: being the History of a Country Village. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE BEST EDITION
4to., Second and Best Edition, on laid paper, with full-page pedigrees in the text, free endpapers mildly spotted; original cloth, boards with double frame border in blind enclosing title and author in gilt, gilt back, bevelled boards, uncut, some light age-staining else a notably bright, fresh copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Expanded version of the original edition of 1889. Very scarce.
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ROWE (ed.) M.M.
Devon and Cornwall Record Society. New Series, Vol. 22. Tudor Exeter. Tax Assessments 1489-1595 including the Military Survey 1522. Edited by Margery M. Rowe.
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers very lightly faded else a near fine copy.
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BELLOC Hilaire
The Old Road. With Illustrations by William Hyde. THE SCARCEST OF BELLOC'S ROAD STUDIES
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and 10 plates in photogravure, 17 illustrations in the text and 6 large folding maps coloured in outline, endpapers mildly browned, some light marginal dust-soiling; original green cloth, upper board lettered in gilt with illustration mounted in gilt frame, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip (browned) laid down, a good, firm copy. The second edition, published in 1911 but bearing no date, is often represented as the first edition. SCARCE. Cahill 18.
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COBBETT William
Cottage Economy. With a Preface by G. K Chesterton.
Sm. 8vo., on laid paper, with a full-page illustration (of an ice-house) in the text, some light and inoffensive spotting; boards, cloth back lettered in gilt, green top, uncut, a very good, clean copy of a most attractive edition. The best modern edition, printed at the Westminster Press
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge. Part I [with] Part II [Second Edition]. COMPLETE SET
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and 4 large folding plans loosely inserted; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. Much-needed reissues of the original edition of 1959.
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PENNELL (illus.) Joseph
A London Reverie. Fifty-Six Drawings by Joseph Pennell. Arranged with an Introductory Essay and Notes by J.C. Squire.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a tinted frontispiece and 55 fine plates, free endpapers lightly spotted; original tan buckram, upper board framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, bevelled edges, uncut, covers mildly age-marked else a very good bright, fresh, clean copy.
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DARTMOOR
The Dartmoor Guide including the River Dart. Sixth Edition. A RARE SURVIVAL.
8vo., Sixth Edition, with numerous photographs and 7 maps (one double-page and 6 full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly browned at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout. Bright copy of one of the least common guides to the moor. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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LAUDER Rosemary
Vanished Landmarks of North Devon. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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DARTMOUTH
The Story of St. Petrox Church. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition,; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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CHELTENHAM SPA
[Official Guide to] Cheltenham Spa. The Centre for the Cotswolds, the Wye and Severn Valleys and Shakespeare Country. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout, and a full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. With very numerous trade advertisements throughout, and a folding map of Cheltenham town centre loosely inserted.
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CLIFTON
Christ Church Clifton. [Church Magazine] May 1959. [Church Magazine] May 1959. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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ROBINSON K. W.
Wild Lochaber. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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HAGGARD Denis
In and Around Storrington. With Maps and Drawings by Betty Haggard. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 7 full-page illustrations and a double-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Very scarce
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BLANCH W. H.
Ye Parish of Camerwell. A brief Account of the Parish of Camberwell.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations (including several original photographic prints of Sir Henry Bessemer's house and garden at Denmark Hill); original blue cloth gilt, gilt back, covers moderately age-marked, very neatly recased else a good, sound copy. SCARCE. Anderson, p.202.
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CHANCELLOR E. Beresford
Life in Regency and Early Victorian Times. An Account of the Days of Brummell and D'Orsay 1800 to 1850. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 148 sepia-toned plates on 80 and 11 vignettes after Cruickshank and others in the text; decorative blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Very scarce in anything like this condition.
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EKWALL Eilert
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Second Edition.
8vo., Second Edition; original blue cloth, cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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GIBBS R.
A History of Aylesbury with its Boroughs and Hundreds, the Hamlet of Walton and the Electoral Division. History of Aylesbury with its Boroughs and Hundreds, the Hamlet of Walton and the Electoral Division.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, half-title lightly foxed; contemporary half calf, backstrip with red leather labels, a very good, clean copy. Scarce.
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BAGGOLEY Martin
Britain in Old Photographs. Blackburn. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. First published in 1996.
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DAVIDSON J.
Notes on the Antiquities of Devonshire which date before the Norman Conquest. [First and Sole Edition in book form]. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH A.L.
8vo., First Edition, with a tipped-in illustration and large folding engraved map on cloth, COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE, map lightly foxed, tiny later signature on front free endpaper; original green coarse-grain cloth, printed paper label on upper cover, printed paper label (lightly browned but entirely legible) on backstrip, red sprinkled edges, yellow endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a splendid, crisp, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE AND A LONG A.L.s TIPPED-IN AT END. With a contemporary sheet folded to 4pp containing a manuscript list in a very neat scholarly hand of 69 'ancient camps or hill fortresses in the County of Devon' and enclosing a separate manuscript plan of Milber Down Camp near Newton Abbot. With the author's memorial bookplate, and trade ticket of Exeter Rare Books, on front paste-down. This valuable work appeared originally as a series of articles in Trewman's 'Exeter Flying Post' newspaper. A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE PRESENTATION COPY. Rare. Brockett 17040. Astonishingly, not in Anderson.
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HITCHES Mike
The Vale of Conwy in Old Photographs. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, text in Welsh and English, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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HUDSON John
Britain in Old Photographs. Bury. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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ROTHWELL Catherine
Blackpool 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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HILL] [J.W.F.
City of Lincoln. [Souvenir Document]. The Tercentenary of the Grant of Charter of Charles I 18 December 1628 - 18 December 1928.
4to., First Edition, 4pp., on laid paper, with coloured illustration mounted on second leaf; covers lightly dust-soiled, a few short closed tears at edges, else a crisp copy. This 4pp pamphlet sets out the historical context of the City's Royal Charter. The coloured illustration depicts the civic insignia. A very scarce survival. Short 2291.
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HAWKER, Vicar of Morwenstow R.S.
Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall. Edited with Introduction by C. E. Byles with Illustrations by J. Ley Pethybridge. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure, decorative title in red and black, and 18 plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper, some light and occasional browning as often; original chocolate cloth elaborately embossed in blind, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly chafed at extreme head and tail else very good, bright copy of an uncommon work. Hawker's most famous work comprises this collection of prose sketches, written originally for a variety of periodicals. First published in book form in 1870, they were re-issued in 1893 together with two previously unpublished essays 'Humphrey Vivian' and 'Old Trevarten' as 'The Prose Works of Rev. R.S. Hawker'. Hawker's close friend J.G. Godwin who added the bibliographical footnotes edited the reissue. The present edition enhances the work still further through the editorship of Byles, the charming illustrations by Pethybridge and plates and portraits from a variety of other sources (including Baring-Gould).
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LINCOLN
The History of Lincoln. With Charter and List of Mayors and Sheriffs.
8vo., First Edition, with a copper-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, and 3 copper-engraved plates, some very light age-staining; original marbled paper boards, roan back with 7 elaborate flat bands ruled and tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with a pastoral scene displaying tree, plants and urn, red sprinkled edges, boards lightly bruised at corners and fore-edges, joints rubbed (but binding entirely sound), a most attractive, crisp copy in wholly unrestored period binding. With dedication to Lady Monson. Nice copy of a very scarce work. Anderson, p.171; Short 614; Upcott, p.640* I.
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FAKENHAM
Fakenham Official Town Guide 1992. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and 2 folding street plans; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements.
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PITSLIGO Lord
Jacobite Letters to Lord Pitsligo 1745-1746 preserved at Fettercairn House. Edited with Notes by Alistair and Henrietta Tayler.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 7 plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present); original blue ribbed cloth, crest blocked in gilt on upper board, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Provides 'reliable information on the campaign which preceded Culloden in 1746 by the commander of a volunteer regiment of cavalry' (Pargellis & Medley). This copy was formerly in the library of William Lumsden Walker (1919-2005), formerly Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Southmead Hospital, Bristol, and bears his signature on front free endpaper. Very scarce. See Pargellis & Medley, 3321.
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