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WATKINS A.
The Old Standing Crosses of Herefordshire. With a Foreword by Martin Linton Smith.
8vo., on laid paper, with a frontispiece, 53 plates and an illustration and a sketch-map in the text; original cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, a fine copy. Written for the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club by the author of 'The Old Straight Track' (1925). A REVIEW COPY.
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WALTON J.
The Greenwell Deeds preserved in the Public Library, Newcastle upon Tyne. Calendared by Joseph Walton. With an Introduction by A. Hamilton Thompson.
8vo., with a frontispiece and 3 plates (one double-page); buckram, UNCUT AND LARGELY UNOPENED. 'Archaeologia Aeliana', Fourth Series, vol. III. A special volume, published in conjunction with the Public Libraries Committee of Newcastle upon Tyne
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WARD Gladys A.
Essex Local History. A Short Guide to Books and Manuscripts. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. O'Leary, 498; not recorded [surprisingly] by Powell.
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WARD LOCK RED GUIDE
A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to the Lake District. Twenty-Third Edition, Revised. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., Twenty-Third Edition, with folding coloured map as frontispiece, 60 photographs (several double-page and many full-page), 3 maps in the text and 3 folding coloured maps, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper and title; original series binding of limp red cloth covers printed in black, radial corners, upper hinger tender (but binding wholly sound), an unusually bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements, numerous trade advertisements at front and 40pp of advertisements at end. The wartime issues are uncommon, especially in this condition.
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VINCENT J.E.
Highways and Byways in Berkshire. With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 76 illustrations (43 full-page) and 3 full-page maps in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front paste-down; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, joints very lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. With 4pp series catalogue bound in at end.
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VINE P.A.L.
Kent & East Sussex Waterways.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title and numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, small neat personal stamp on front free endpaper; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy.
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VINE P.A.L.
West Sussex Waterways.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps in the text, small neat personal stamp on front free endpaper; laminated pictorial boards, a near fine copy.
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VIZARD P.E.
A Guide to Hampstead. (New and Revised Edition).
Sm. 4to., Best Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 7 plates, endpapers lightly spotted; marbled boards, cloth back gilt, backstrip lettered in MS, uncut, covers age-marked, short split in upper joint but binding entirely sound, internally a very good, clean copy. Delightful period guide withy numerous trade advertisements. This, the second edition, is thoroughly revised with much new matter. VERY SCARCE
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WALLIS (ed.) A.
Bemroses' Guide to to Matlock, Bakewell, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall etc.. With Walks round Matlock-Bath, List of Wild Flowers, Ferns, and Mosses, found in the Neighbourhood, Table of Distances, etc. Edited by Alfred Wallis. SPLENDID COPY IN HALF MOROCCO
8vo., First Edition [?], with a folding county map as frontispiece, 8 plates and 16 woodcuts in the text, some light age-staining to wrappers and preliminaries; handsomely bound in dark brown half morocco, marbled boards,gilt back, original pictorial wrappers preserved (front wrapper clipped at corners and mounted), a most attractive copy. With numerous period trade advertisements (a number illustrated) at front and rear. RARE.
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WALLEN W.
The History and Antiquities of the Round Church at Little Maplestead, Essex. Formerly belonging to the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem. Preceded by an historical Sketch of the Crusades.
8vo., with a frontispiece, 7 plates (foxed) and numerous wood-engravings in the text; decorative cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, covers a little worn and faded else a sound copy. With the leather book-label of E. Sexton, F.S.A.
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WAKE J.
The Letters of Daniel Eaton to the Third Earl of Cardigan 1725-1732.
Roy., 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, a plate, 3 full-page facsimiles, an illustration in the text and a large folding map on japon; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Publications of the Northamptonshire Record Society, vol. XXIV.
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WILLIAMSON J.
History of Congregationalism in Cardiff and District.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 74 plates on 28; cloth, a very good, clean copy of an uncommon work. With a bookplate
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WALDIE G.
A History of the Town and Palace of Linlithgow with Notices, historical and antiquarian, of Places of Interest in the Neighbourhood. Third edition.
8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece, 11 illustrations in the text and a map; ribbed cloth gilt, small mark on upper cover, endpapers a little marked else a sound, clean copy. With the addendum slip, often wanting. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on endpapers. This edition not recorded by BMC
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WALLACE Rev. James
A Description of the Isles of Orkney. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1693. With Illustrative Notes from an interleaved Copy in the Library of the University of Edinburgh. Edited by John Small. [Facsimile re-issue]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE FACSIMILE EDITION
8vo., Sole Edition thus, on laid paper, with folding map as frontispiece, 2 folding plates and folding map; navy buckram, gilt back, upper hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), slightly pulled at head of backstrip else a near fine copy. Includes 'An Explication of some Norish Words used in Orkney and Zetland' and 'An Essay concerning the Thule of the Ancients' (1693). THIS HIGH QUALITY FACSIMILE IS ITSELF EXTREMELY SCARCE. Anderson, p.402 (recording the first edition).
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WAUGH E.
Rambles in the Lake Country and its Borders.
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper, original cloth, very neatly rebacked in cloth gilt to style, a very bright, clean copy.
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WALKER Gilbert George
Tales of a Lincolnshire Antiquary. Essays and Reminiscenses. Edited by William A. Cragg.
8vo., with a portrait frontispiece; cloth gilt, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate. Uncommon
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TURNER Tony
The Story of Swallowfield. A Short History of the Bigg Family in West Sussex and Australia. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, and pedigrees, in the text; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy. Scarce
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TWYFORD H.P.
It Came to our Door. Plymouth in the World War. Introduction by Lord Astor. Photographs by Dermot P. Fitzgerald, [Fourth Impression].
8vo., Fourth Impression, with a frontispiece and 35 plates on 36; original red cloth, covers lightly age-soiled else a good, clean copy. A valuable record, both textual and visual, of the 'worst blitzed city', for Plymouth endured no fewer than fifty-nine major air raids. First published in 1945. Brockett 73550 (recording the first edition); not recorded by Enser.
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RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION
Ramblers Tynedale. Ten Walks in the South West of Northumberland around Tyne, North Tyne & South Tyne Dales. Ramblers Association. Northern Area. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., with numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and inner wrapper maps, neat signature on title; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Nice copy of an uncommon guide written and illustrated in the Wainwright style.
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UNDERHILL F. M.
Notes on Recent Antiquarian Discoveries in Berkshire [with] Recent Antiquarian Discoveries (II). SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
2 vols., 8vo., with 3 plates in the first volume; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers a little dust-soiled else both very good, clean copies. THE SECOND VOLUME IS A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from 'The Berkshire Archaeological Journal' vol. 41, No. 1 and vol. XLII, Part I respectively. VERY SCARCE IN THIS FORM.
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VENN J.
[Gonville and] Caius College.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, and 7 plates, neat signature on front free endpaper, endpapers lightly spotted; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, gilk top, uncut, covers slightly faded else a very good copy. Robinson's 'Cambridge College Histories'. Clark, p.107
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TREANOR T.S.
The Cry from the Sea and the Answer from the Shore. [Tales of Lifeboat Rescues].
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial grey boards, boards lightly rubbed at extremities else a very good, firm copy. With a bookplate on front paste-down. Very scarce, especially in this condition. Bennett, p.161 (BL and Bennett give 1898)
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TREANOR T.S.
Heroes of the Goodwin Sands.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; original pictorial cloth, backstrip sunned, boards lightly age-worn at edges else very good, firm copy. Bennett, p.161(misdating the first edition 1904)
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TOMLINSON W.W.
Comprehensive Guide to the County of Northumberland. Tenth Edition.
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, with 3 folding maps, and large folding map in pocket at end; cloth lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, backstrip moderately sunned (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front, rear and in the text. With pictorial bookplates on front endpapers. Very nice copy of one of the most detailed guides to the county.
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TUER Andrew W.
Old London Street Cries and the Cries of Today. REMARKABLY FRESH, CLEAN COPY
16mo., on laid paper, with a woodcut frontispiece COLOURED BY HAND and numerous woodcuts in the text; newly and skilfully bound in marbled boards of the period, ORIGINAL PAPER LABEL PRESERVED, ORIGINAL TIES MOUNTED (one defective), an unusually fresh, clean copy. Published by Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press ('Rights Reserved: Wrongs Revenged'). The considerable popularity of the author's 'London Cries' published two years earlier at the price of one guinea prompted 'the publication of this additionally illustrated extension at the more popular price of a shilling'. With 6pp publisher's catalogue at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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TORR C.
Small Talk at Wreyland. [First, Second and Third Series. Complete set]. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save first volume), on laid paper, with 2 frontispieces and 10 plates, neat signature on front paste-downs, fore-edges browned as always; original boards, oatmeal buckram backs lettered in black, uncut, corners bruised, hinges tender (but all bindings entirely sound) else a very good, clean set of a very scarce work. Torr's classic account of local lore and anecdotes in the area around the village of Lustleigh. This is an above average set albeit showing signs of age and usage. First Series (second impression, 1918, five months after the first edition); Second Series (first edition, 1921); Third Series (first edition, 1923). Complete sets in the original boards are very scarce. Brockett, 72040; Somers Cocks p.55.
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TIMBS John
The Romance of London. A Collection of Strange Stories, Scenes and Vicissitudes associated with the History of London. NEAR FINE SET
2 vols., 8vo., with 2 frontispieces ad 14 plates; original blue cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, a near fine set . With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of second volume. A lovely set, and scarce in this condition.
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TIMMINS S.
A History of Warwickshire.
8vo., on laid paper; cloth, gilt back, a covers a little worn and binding a little shaken else a good, sound copy. Published in Elliott Stock's very useful 'Popular County History' series.
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TINGEY J. C.
On the Course of the Ickneild Way through Norfolk. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 2 large maps coloured in outline on japon (one double-page, one folding); red wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, backstrip in black passe-partout, a near fine copy. Extracted from Norfolk Archaeology, 14, pp.135-152 (1901). EXTREMELY SCARCE. Bonser 2378; Darroch & Taylor 1694.
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TITTLER (ed.) R.
Accounts of the Roberts Family of Boarzell, Sussex c.1569-1582.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a fine copy.
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THOMAS-STANFORD Charles
Sussex in the Great Civil War 1642-1660.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original brown buckram, gilt back, gilt top, a very good, clean copy. One of the most elusive Civil War County histories. Extremely scarce
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THOMIS M.I.
Old Nottingham.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates, and several illustrations and 2 double-page maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
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THOMPSON V.
Back Along the Lines. North Devon's Railways. Photography by Sandra Yeo and from the author's collection.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and a full-page map in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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THOMSON James
A Great Free City. The Book of Silchester. 350 SETS WERE PRINTED
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Sole Edition, with frontispieces and very numerous plates and illustrations in the text; boards, cloth backs gilt, upper cover of first volume a little scored else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES. One of the most detailed histories of any Romano-British settlement, and now very hard to find. Bonser, 4213.
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THOMPSON T. W
Hawkshead Church, Chapelry and Parish [Fifth Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., Fifth Edition, with 9 full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1956.
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THORNELY J.L.
The Monumental Brasses of Lancashire and Cheshire with some Account of the Persons represented. (Illustrated with Engravings from Drawings by the Author).
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and 27 full-page illustrations in the text; original cloth gilt, gilt back, gil top, neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 203). With a contemporary press-mark on front paste-down.
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THOMAS B.G.
Fire-Fighting in Maidstone.
8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates on 16; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Bennett (Supp.), p.204
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THOMAS-STANFORD C.
The Sussex Musters of 1618. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition thus; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy. Offprinted from Vol. LIX of the Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
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THAMES VALLEY
The Thames Valley. A Guide to the River from the Cotswolds to London. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and 4 full-page maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Remarkably well-preserved copy, with the usual trade advsertisements.
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TAIT Fred
Hexham and the Wall Country. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; original pictorial wrappers, extremities a little browned else a very good, clean copy.
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SHERE
Old Houses in the Parish of Shere. [Third Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Third Impression, with numerous illustrations in the text and folding map on rear wrappers; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. First published in 1976.
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BURY
A History of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Bury. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with full-page photographs and a full-page plan in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 120. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the Counties of East and West Sussex. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Major papers include Cleal. Ring Ditch at Playden; Tebbutt. Iron Smelting at Millbrook; Bedwin. Excavations at Devil's Ditch; Aldsworth & Harris. Medieval House at Walderton; Stevens. Windmill Sites at Friston and Eastbourne; Mayhew. Reformation Rye; Jenkins. Graduate Clergy in Sussex; Farrant. Rotal Pavilion Estate; Chapman. Horsham Exclosure. Caplan. Religious Dissent.
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SUSSEX HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST
Sussex Churches. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 126. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the Counties of East and West Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans in the text, and microfiche in pocket at rear; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Major papers include: Smith & Jennings. Clearances in Combe Haven Valley; Holgate. Napoleonic Camp at Bullen Down; Smith. Anglo-Saxon Burials Stafford Road, Brighton; Gardiner. Excavations at Testers; Holmes. Saxon Church at West Blatchington; Milner-Gulland. Greatham Church; Aldsworth & Harris. St. Mary's Church, Sompting; Stevens. Early Millsteads, Polegate; Small. Review of Ashdown Forest; Caffyn. Marriage in the Mid-Sussex Weald; Kelly. Coade Stone in Sussex; Jones. Oasthouses in Ewhurst Parish.
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FINDON
A Short History of the Church of St. John the Baptist, Findon. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 129. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the Counties of East and West Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans in the text, and microfiche in pocket at rear; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Major papers include: Butler. Barrow at Pyecombe; Leppard. East Grinstead; Morrison & Baxter. Bosham Church; Aldsworth. St. Nicholas, Worth; Stevens & Stevens. Excavations at Michelham Priory; Gardiner, Jones & Martin. Medieval Hall at Salehurst; Farrant, Howard, Rudling, Warren & Whittick. Laughton Place; Rudling. Excavations at Cliffe; Stevenson. Borough of Winchelsea; Goring. Sussex Dissenting Family; Jacobs. Brighton Distress Committee.
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 131. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the Counties of East and West Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans in the text, and microfiche in pocket at rear; original series binding of red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Major papers include: Gilkes. Iron Age and Roman Littlehampton; Gardiner. Excavation at Market Field, Steyning; Gardiner. Earthwork at Tottingworth Heathfield; Rudling, Barber & Martin. Phoenix Brewery Site at Hastings; Hudson. Arundel's Blackfriars located; Whittick. Dallingridge's Bay and Bodiam Castle; McCann. Rood Loft in Westbourne Church; McCann. Murder of Chaplain; Farrant. Long Man of Wilmington; Beaufort. Medical Practitioners; Farrant. Francis Grose's Antiquities; Whittick. Brighton and the Health of Towns Bill; Ray. Brunswick Town, Hove; Sheppard. Housing the Agricultural Worker.
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 120. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the Counties of East and West Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs, illustrations and maps in the text; original series binding of red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Major papers include Cleal. Ring Ditch at Playden; Tebbutt. Iron Smelting at Millbrook; Bedwin. Excavations at Devil's Ditch; Aldsworth & Harris. Medieval House at Walderton; Stevens. Windmill Sites at Friston and Eastbourne; Mayhew. Reformation Rye; Jenkins. Graduate Clergy in Sussex; Farrant. Rotal Pavilion Estate; Chapman. Horsham Exclosure. Caplan. Religious Dissent.
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TAYLOR M.
Rustington.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; pictorial boards, a near fine copy. Well-illustrated account of the ancient village at the foot of the South Downs.
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