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WORTH R. Hansford
A Flint Implement of Palaeolithic Type from Dartmoor. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with a plate; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1931, vol. lxiii.
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WORTH R. Hansford
The Moorstone Age, Part I [THIS PART ONLY]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with a diagram in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1949, vol. lxxxi.
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WRIGHT R. P.
The Stanegate at Walwick Grange. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO I D MARGARY
8vo., with 2 plates on 1 and 2 full-page plans in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO I D MARGARY WITH THE FORMER'S INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'Archaeologia Aeliana', 4th Series, vol. xvi. Ivan Donald Margary (1896-1976) was the twentieth century's leading authority on Roman roads in Britain, devising a structured numbering system to ease identification. Among his many studies are 'Roman Ways of the Weald' (1948) and the definitive 'Roman Roads in Britain (2 vols., 1955-57). Bonser 2724.
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WORTH R. Hansford
Prehistoric Tavistock. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 2 plates and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association', 1947, vol.lxxiv.
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WOODRIFF B.
Kingston on Thames as it was. A Selection of Old Photographs compiled and annotated.
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations from photographs in the text; original pictorial covers, a fine copy.
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WORLEY G.
Essex. A Dictionary of the County mainly ecclesiological in two Parts.
8vo., cloth, gilt back, uncut. A handy and valuable work of reference providing a wealth of information in gazetteer form.
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WRIGHT R. P.
The Stanegate at Corbridge. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO I D MARGARY
8vo., with 4 plates on 2 and 3 full-page plans in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO I D MARGARY WITH THE FORMER'S INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'Archaeologia Aeliana', 4th Series, vol. xix. A presentation copy from the author to I.D. Margary, with the former' initialled holograph inscription on front wrapper. Reprinted from 'Archaeologia Aeliana', 4th Series, vol. xvii. Ivan Donald Margary (1896-1976) was the twentieth century's leading authority on Roman roads in Britain, devising a structured numbering system to ease identification. Among his many studies are 'Roman Ways of the Weald' (1948) and the definitive 'Roman Roads in Britain (2 vols., 1955-57). Bonser 2721.
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WRIGHT R. P.
The Wrekendike and Roman road-junction on Gateshead Fell [and] The Devil's Causeway from Rimside Moor (Longframlington) to Bridge of Aln. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO I D MARGARY
8vo., with 4 plates on 2, and 8 illustrations, maps and plans (3 full-page) in the text; printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO I D MARGARY WITH THE FORMER'S INITIALLED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'Archaeologia Aeliana', 4th Series, vol. xvii. Ivan Donald Margary (1896-1976) was the twentieth century's leading authority on Roman roads in Britain, devising a structured numbering system to ease identification. Among his many studies are 'Roman Ways of the Weald' (1948) and the definitive 'Roman Roads in Britain (2 vols., 1955-57). Bonser 2760.
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WOOLLEY A.R.
The Clarendon Guide to Oxford. New [Fourth] Edition.
8vo., with a frontispiece and very numerous illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
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WORTH R. Hansford
The Dunstones of Plymouth and the Compton-Efford Grit. A Geological Resurvey. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo.,with 5 plates and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association', 1916, vol. xlviii
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WOOD Fred F
Round about a Sussex Village [Ditchling]. CRISP, CLEAN COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plates; green cloth, backstrip with paper label (suffed) printed in red and black, uncut, a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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WOOD Rev. Eliott Colpoys
A Guide to the Parish Church of Widecombe-in-the-Moor. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 3 plates; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE. Brockett 79620.
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WOOD Edwin
Thirty Walks around Ilfracombe. Containing valuable Information and Maps. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 10 maps (one double-page and 9 full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. SCARCE. Not recorded by Brockett.
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WOOD H.
Tamworth Borough Records, being a Catalogue of Civic Records with Appendices.
8vo., Sole Edition; cloth gilt, a very good, bright copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front free endpaper and title only
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WINYARD T.
The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew the Great. (Founded 1123 AD). The Oldest Parish Church in London. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with several photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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WARNER O.
A History of the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Company of the City of London. History of the Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Company of the City of London.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a double-page coloured plate and 16 monochrome plates on 10; pictorial boards lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, black top, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF TIN PLATE WORKERS ALIAS WIRE WORKERS WITH ITS COLOURED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY FREDERICK ERNEST CLEARY, MASTER OF THE COMPANY. Published to commemorate the tercentenary of the Company.
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WILSON J.A.
Contributions to the History of Lanarkshire.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, maps and diagrams (a number folding); original blue cloth, gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE
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JOHN EVELYN SOCIETY
The Parish Register of Wimbledon, Co. Surrey.
Roy. 8vo., on laid paper; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, uncut, backstrip very slightly creased at head else a remarkably bright, near fine copy of a scarce work. Published for the John Evelyn Club of Wimbledon
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WIMBLE DON AND SUTTON RAILWAY 1910 Act of Parliament
An Act for incorporating the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Company. and authorising them to construct railways and works in the County of Surrey and for other purposes INCORPORATION OF WIMBLEDON AND SUTTON RAILWAY
4to., 34 leaves, with fine woodblock arms of Edward VII at head; sewed as issued, a remarkably bright, clean copy ideal for framing and display. 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5. The Wimbledon and Sutton Railway Company Ltd., incorporated in law by the present Act, continued in operation from 1910 to 1925. When, in 1923, the Southern Railway Company was formed by merging the five major southern lines (and several smaller operators), the Wimbledon & Sutton fought to stay apart. It was one of the last to remain independent before its inevitable absorption in 1925. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Not in Ottley.
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WINBOLT S. E.
History of the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Horsham. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 3 illustrations (2 full-page) in the text and double-page plan, neat inscription on front free endpaper and some light pencilled annotations in a neat hand; boards, cloth back, a very good, clean copy.
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WINBOLT S. E.
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Penguin Guides 10. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 8pp of coloured maps; original pictorial wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. No. 10 of the Penguin Guides, edited by L. Russell Muirhead.
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WINBOLT S.E.
The Roman Villa at Bignor Sussex. With a Plan of the Villa. New Edition.
8vo., with a full-page illustration, a full-page plan and a double-page plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Winbolt's guide was first published in 1925, with the updated edition following in 1930. Bonser 5092 (recording the updated edition).
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WORTH R. Hansford
The Stone Rows of Dartmoor. Part VI [THIS PART ONLY].. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with 2 plans in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1903, vol. xxxv.
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WORTH R. N.
Recent Geological Discoveries in the Neighbourhood of Plymouth. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, uncut, a very good copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association', 1880
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WORTH R. N.
Notes on the Limstone of Yealmpton and its associated Rocks. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, uncut, a near fine copy. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Devonshire Association', 1874. VERY SCARCE.
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WORTH R. Hansford
Weathered Granite. Abstract of a Lecture (given 27 November 1930). NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with a plate; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a fine copy. Reprinted from the Annual Reports and Transactions of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, vol. xvii.
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THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE
[List of Prehistoric, Roman and Pagan Saxon Antiquities in the County arranged by Parish, in] The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine. No. CXX. December 1913. Vol. XXXVIII. SCARCE SPECIAL NUMBER: GODDARD'S ANTIQUITIES
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, yapped covers, uncut, backstrip lightly worn (but binding entirely sound) else a very good, clean, firm copy. The entire number is devoted to Goddard's 'List of Prehistoric, Roman and Pagan Saxon Antiquities in the County of Wilts arranged under Parishes'. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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WILLIAMSON Henry
On Foot in Devon. Or, Guidance and Gossip being a Monologue in Two Reels. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, 7 plates and endpaper maps, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; sand cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, radial corners, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. One of the few of Williamson's works never to have been reprinted. Gretton, 19; Matthews A19.
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WILLIAMS (ed.) N.J.
Collectanea. With a Foreword by T.F.T. Plucknett.
Roy. 8vo., Sole Edition; original cloth, a fine copy. [Transactions of the] Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, Records Branch, vol. XII. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES. Contents includes 'Accounts for Works on the Royal Mills and Castle at Marlborough'; 'The Veredictum of Chippenham Hundred'; 'Pleas in the Liberty of the Abbot of Battle at Bromham'; 'Fragment of an Account of the Cellaress of Wilton Abbey'; 'Clerical Poll-Taxes in the Diocese of Salisbury' and 'Wiltshire Deeds in the Bath Public Library'. As usual, the work concludes with valuable indexes by person, place and subject. Very scarce.
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WHITE Mary Frances
Fifteenth Century Misericords in the Collegiate Church of Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon. Photographed by P. Goodfellow. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and a plan on front inside wrapper, small inscription on title, small price sticker on rear wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Includes a bibliography. SCARCE.
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WILLIAMS J.
The Story of Chester.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the text and a folding plan, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip lightly browned, joints mildly rubbed else a very good, clean copy. Scarce
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WILLIAMS John G.
Abergavenny and District Historical Notes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at edges else a very good, clean copy. SCARCE.
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WHITE Gilbert
The Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton. Edited by W. Sidney Scott with Notes and Appendices.
8vo., First Edition thus, with 12 plates; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Illustrated with wash drawings of Selborne made in the year 1776 by Samuel Richardson Grimm.
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WILDMAN W.B.
A short History of Sherborne from 705 AD. Third Edition. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., LARGE PAPER, on laid paper, with 8 plates and 2 plans (one folding); plum buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly recased, covers lightly age-faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 36). With the embossed armorial bookplate of Ivory King on front paste-down, and two relevant half-tone plates loosely inserted. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM TEN SCHOLARS OF No. 3 DORMITORY TO I.H.A. KING
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WILKINS Alderman W. G.
The Penny History of England for the Agricultural Labourer. Special Edition published by the Land Values Depot, 113 Botchergate, Carlisle. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. Splendid example of a scarce pamphlet providing 'education for the masses'. IN VIRTUALLY UNMARKED CONDITION THIS IS A RARE SURVIVAL. Apparently not recorded by the British Library.
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WHELLAN F.
History, Topography and Directory of Northamptonshire. Comprising a General Survey of the County, and a History of the City and Diocese of Peterborough. Second Edition.
8vo., Second Edition, title neatly re-margined with archival tape, neat contemporary signature on first page of index, some light age-staining; contemporary half calf, sides with three gilt fillets, gilt back, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, hinges cracked, upper board partially detached (but text block entirely sound), an unusually clean copy. Substantially revised edition of the first edition of 1849. Scarce in any condition. Anderson, p.225.
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WHEELER R.E. Mortimer
The Excavation of Maiden Castle, Dorset. First Interim Report. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with 8 plates on 6 and 4 large folding plates; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut, wrappers lightl;y frayed at edges else a very good, clean copy. Reprinted from 'The Antiquaries Journal', vol. XV, no.3.
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WELMAN S.
The Parish and Church of Godalming.
4to., with 17 plates, numerous illustrations in the text, a plan and 2 maps, some light foxing; boards, covers somewhat marked and worn, two worm-holes on lower board else a good, sound copy. With the errata slip. A PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The work remains the sole separately published history. Scarce
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WEST WILTSHIRE PRINTING CO
Historic Spots in Wiltshire. With Engravings.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 16 plates, title lightly offset; original buckram gilt, uncut, front endpapers cracked at hinge but hinge and binding entirely sound, a very good, bright copy. Useful, well-produced, turn-of-the-century compilation comprising reprints of a number of Michael's pamphlets bound together in book form. Goddard, p.2
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WESTAWAY K.M.
A History of Bedford High School. History of Bedford High School.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates, neat contemporary signature on title; cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly frayed at head and tail else a good, clean copy.
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SMITH J.E.
A Catalogue of Westminster Records. Deposited at the Town Hall, Caxton Street, in the Custody of the Vestry of St. Margaret & St. John, with Introductory Essay, Illustrations and Extracts.
4to., Sole Edition, with 49 fine full-page facsimiles; boards, half vellum, uncut, covers somewhat age-marked else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. The catalogue covers Churchwardens' Accounts from 1256-1868, Overseers' Accounts from 1561-1846, Rate Books, Poor and Watch Rates, Vestry Minutes and Letter Books, with numerous extracts in each case. An Appendix details the Inventories of the Goods, Jewels and Ornaments in the Church of St. Margaret, 1511, 1572, and 1614-15. John Edward Smith, author of numerous standard works of the history of Westminster, was sometime Clerk to the Vestry.
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WEBLING A.F.
Risby. Pen and Ink Drawings by Sidney T. Beeson.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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WELCH (ed.) Edwin
Devon and Cornwall Record Society. New Series, Vol. 12. Plymouth Building Accounts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Edited with an Introduction by Edwin Welch.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy.
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WATT Francis
The Book of Edinburgh Anecdote.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a mounted coloured frontispiece [by Sir J Gordon Watson] and 32 mounted plates in sepia or monochrome, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a very good, clean copy. No. 1 of Foulis's famous series 'The Anecdote Books'. Elfick and Harris, 357.
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WAY R. H.
A Brief History of Denham Parish and Church. [Third Thousand]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Thousand; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
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WARTER John Wood
Appendicia et Pertinentiae. Or, Parochial Fragments of West Tarring, and the Chapelries of Heene and Durrington, in the County of Sussex. IN CONTEMPORARY CLOTH
8vo., First Edition, title in red and black, endpapers mildly browned; brown cloth blocked in blind, contemporary blind-blocked cloth, plain back, uncut, covers unevenly sunned else a good, firm, copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. This detailed account also contains a life of Thomas A Becket, an historical and descriptive account of his palace at West Tarring and of the figs he introduced, together with some account of the learned John Selden and his cottage at Salvington. T he work was compiled in aid of the restoration of the church of St. Andrew at West Tarring. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Anderson p.284.
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WARTER J. W.
Appendicia et Pertinentiae; or, Parochial Fragments of West Tarring, and the Chapelries of Heene and Durrington, in the County of Sussex. SPLENDID COPY IN HALF CALF
8vo., First Edition, title in red and black attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt back, laid endpapers, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, a bright, crisp, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. This detailed account also contains a life of Thomas A Becket, an historical and descriptive account of his palace at West Tarring and of the figs he introduced, together with some account of the learned John Selden and his cottage at Salvington. T he work was compiled in aid of the restoration of the church of St. Andrew at West Tarring. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Anderson p.284.
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WARWICKSHIRE.
A History of the County of Warwick. Edited by W.B. Stephens. Volume VII. The City of Birmingham. 1200 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, series title in black, dedication and volume title in red and black, 69 plates on 28, and 2 illustrations, 12 maps and plans (10 full-page) and numerous tables in the text; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, laminated boards, a near fine copy. With a personal bookplate on front free endpaper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1200 COPIES.
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WARREN C. Henry
Happy Countryman. [binding variant].
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; cloth, uncut, a near fine copy. Apparently a binding variant, with backstrip lettered in gilt (rather than blind), the backstrip title reading 'The Happy Countryman' and with fore-edges uncut. A scarce Warren title
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WARWICKSHIRE
A Guide to Warwick, Kenilworth, Stratford-on-Avon, Coventry, and the various Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood. Thirty-Eighth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with wood-engraved frontispiece and 8 plates; original pictorial wrappers, covers a little age-marked else a very good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements, including detailed displays of the King's Schools, Warwick.
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