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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 87. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County.
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, numerous plates, and illustrations and maps in the text; original series binding of maroon cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Major papers include Peckham (W.D). Some Chichester Wills 1483-1504; Poole (H). Domesday Book Churches of Sussex; Wilson (A.E) and G.P. Burstow. The Evolution of Sussex Iron Age Pottery; Barker (E.E). Sussex Anglo-Saxon Churches; Godfrey (W.H). The Parish Church of St. Andrew, Bishopstone; Leeney (O.H). Reference to Ancient Sussex Churches in 'The Ecclesiologist'.
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TAYLOR Canon
St. Just in Penwith Church Guide. Six Hundredth Anniversary. A SCARCE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers lightly faded at backstrip else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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STRUTHERS J.
The History of Scotland from the Union to the Abolition of the heritable Jurisdiction in MDCCXLVIII.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispieces and 5 engraved plates, some minimal spotting and staining; mid-nineteenth century half calf, backs gilt extra with double roan labels, speckled edges, corners lightly bruised, joints a little rubbed else a most attractive and very clean copy. Pargellis and Medley, 3299.
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SUFFLING Ernest R.
Sun Pictures of the Norfolk Broads. One Hundred Photographs from Nature of the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk. By Payne Jennings. With Letterpress Description by Ernest R. Suffling. Second Edition.
Sm. 4to., Second Edition, with a frontispiece and 98 fine plates [all complete], title very lightly spotted; original pictorial cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, bevelled boards, red edges, chocolate endpapers, joints lightly rubbed, top and fore-edge faded, upper joint just starting (but binding entirely sound) else a remarkably bright, clean copy. With the two leaves of advertisements at rear (the first for Great Eastern Railway; the second for the publisher's catalogue). Despite the title-page only 99 plates (including the frontispiece) are called for. This glorious photographic depiction of Broadland was first published in 1891; a third edition (apparently rather more common) appeared in 1897. Very scarce, especially in this condition. Darroch & Taylor 334 (recording only the third edition); not in Steward.
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SCARFE Norman
Suffolk. A Shell Guide. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to., Second Impression, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
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SURREY
Surrey Archaeological Collections relating to the History and Antiquities of Surrey. Vol.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and plans (a number folding); original series binding of green cloth, framed and blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, some trifling wear to extremities else a very good, bright, clean copy. Loosely inserted are three separate relevant propectuses.Major papers include Onslow, Earl. The Road in Surrey; Goodchild (R.G). Martin Tupper and Farley Heath; Bray (F.E). Diary of William Bray; Antrobus (M), L.B. Ellis and A.L. Browne. The Funeral Surcoat in Stoke D'Abernon Church; Browne (A.L). Early Archdeacons of Surrey; Rankine (W.F). Tranchet Axes of SW Surrey; Cooke (B.C). Transcipts of Surrey Parish Registers.
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SUSSEX COUNTY CRICKET CLUB
Sussex County Cricket Club, Hove 1872-1972. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 31 plates on 12; original pictorial wrappers, wrapper lightly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
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SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Surrey Archaeological Collections relating to the History and Antiquities of Surrey. Vol. XLVII
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and plans; original series binding of green cloth, framed and blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, some trifling wear to extremities else a very good, bright, clean copy. Major papers include Hart (E) and H. Braun. West Humble Chapel; Baskerville (G). The Dispossessed Religious in Surrey; Hooper (W). Brass Chandeliers in Surrey Churches; Straker (E). The Vachery Ironworks; Fant (H.B). William Belitha; Frere (S). Mediaeval Pottery at Ashstead; Marshall (C.J). Rate Book of the Parish of Cheam 1730-1753; Mann (J.G). Funeral Helmet of Sir Thomas Vincent in Stoke D'Abernon Church.
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STEYNING.
Steyning. Official Guide. Issued by Authority of the Steyning Parish Council. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with numerous photographs and full-page street map in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
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STRATFORD Joseph
Gloucestershire Biographical Notes. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, some light foxing to title and front free endpaper; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, primrose endpapers, small pull at headband else an unusually bright, clean copy. Usefully detailed biographies of over 30 county worthies, together with accounts of churchmen, nonconformists, literary men, men of science, agriculturists and centenarians, and a list of patron saints.
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STRETTON E. H. A.
Dacre Castle. J.H. OWEN'S COPY WITH AUTHOR'S A.L.s
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and numerous photographs and pedigrees (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE EMINENT HISTORIAN J H OWEN. Loosely inserted is a draft letter from him to the author and the latter's A.L.s in reply. SCARCE.
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STEVENS T.H.G.
Manchester of Yesterday.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 25 plates on 17; cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy.
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STICKINGS Thomas G.
The Story of Saundersfoot. [Foreword by Lord Merthyr. Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with 27 plates and maps (one double-page) on 16, and several maps and plans in the text; original photographic wrappers, a very good, clean copy. First published in 1970.
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STEWART R.
Handbook of the Torquay Flora. Comprising the Flowering Plants and Ferns growing in and around Torquay, with their respective Habitats.
Sm. 8vo., Sole Edition, neat pencilled signature on title, moderate browning and damp-mark on front free endpaper, title and dedication (only); original decorative cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, covers slightly age-dulled else a very good, clean copy of a very scarce work. Freeman 3587; Brockett, 68630, locates only five copies in county institutions
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STEER F. W.
Guide to the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Burpham. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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STEER W. S.
Devon Pioneers of Social Insurance. 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. xcvi.
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STEER F. W.
Guide to the Church of Coombes. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates, and a plan in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With a coloured postcard of the church loosely inserted.
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STAFFORDSHIRE.
A History of the County of Stafford.. Edited by M.W. Greenslade and J.G. Jenkins. Volume II with Index to Volumes I and II. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, 32 plates on 11, 2 illustrations (one full-page) and 19 maps and plans (9 full-page) in the text; decorative red cloth gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its cancelled bookplate on front paste-down, small neat stamp on verso of title only, and neat paper accession label on backstrip
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STAINFORTH Thomas
Rambles Round Hull. [Foreword by H. M. Foster]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with a full-page portrait plate and maps (several full-page) in the text, small label scar on title; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. A RARE SURVIVAL.
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STANDING R. W.
Old East Preston. Some Historical Notes - 1. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 27 photographs (many full-page) and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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STAPLETON H.
Memorials of Calverley Parish Church and its Forty-One Vicars. With some Account of the Old Hall, Calverley, Esholt Priory and Hall, and the Daughter Churches of Pudsey, Idle, and Farsley. 100 COPIES WERE PRINTED
4to., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece, 2 coloured plates of arms and 27 plates and portraits in monochrome, some light and mainly marginal spotting; original full faux-vellum, sides with double frame border in gilt enclosing an armorial bearing blocked in gilt, bevelled edges, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a remarkably bright, firm copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 100 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 46). Sold with a few items of printed and MS ephemera relating to the Bloomer family of Accrington.
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SOMERS F.
Halesowen Churchwardens' Accounts (1487-1582). Edited for the Worcestershire Historical Society by Frank Somers. Transcribed by E.H. Sargeant. Part III. [This part only].
4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SOMERVELL J.
Some Westmorland Wills 1686-1738.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 8 plates, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Very scarce.
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SOUTHDOWN MOTOR SERVICES LTD
The Southdown Story. A History of Southdown Motor Services Limited 1915-1965.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Scarce.
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SMITH Jack
Britain in Old Photographs. Southport. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; original photographic wrappers, a near fine copy.
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SMITH F.F.
A History of Rochester.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 59 plates, some light spotting throughout; cloth gilt, gilt back, a sound, tight copy. Two relevant leaflets are loosely inserted. Bennett, p.319.
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SMITH Frederick Francis
Rochester in Parliament 1295-1933. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First and Sole Edition; red cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett, p.319.
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SMITH W.
The History and Antiquities of Morley in the West Riding of the County of York.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 7 plates in Woodburytype and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the test; original cloth, gilt back, bevelled boards, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, firm copy. Anderson, p.323.
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SMITH C.L.W.
Stories of Inverness and the North. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., pictorial boards as issued, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM AUTHOR WITH HIS LONG SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE VERSO.
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SMITH A. M.
Coventry.A Guide and Memento. A SCARCE SURVIVAL
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, 7 charming full-page coloured illustrations in the text and coloured map on rear inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, printed in gilt and colours, sewed as issued, wrappers very lightly age-soiled else a near fine copy. A delightful little guide book with striking illustrations. A SCARCE SURVIVAL.
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SMITH E.H.
Happy Memories of West Somerset.
12mo., with 100 illustrations in the text; boards, wanting front free endpaper else a very good, clean copy.
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SMITH F.
Prehistoric Man and the Cambridge Gravels.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 30 plates, free endpapers mildly browned; blue cloth, upper board lettered in blind, gilt back, covers a trifle marked and faded else a very good, clean copy.
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SMITH H. P.
The Society of Poole Men 1924-45. [Foreword by Alderman H. S. Carter]. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with 16 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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SMITH Frederick Francis
A History of Rochester. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with 60 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; cloth, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Bennett, p.319.
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SLEIGH John
A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek in Staffordshire, including Horton, Cheddleton and Ipstones. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND EDITION
Folio, Second Edition, with portrait frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, numerous illustrations in the text and several pedigrees (a number folding); original grey cloth, gilt back, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the list of subscribers. First published in 1862. VERY SCARCE. Anderson, p.259; Simms, p.406.
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SIMPSON Rev. F. S. W.
The Churches of St. Nicholas, Old Shoreham and St. Mary de Hau(v)ra of the Port, New Shoreham Sussex. Foreword by the former Lord Bishop of Chichester. Third Edition. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Third Edition, with numerous photographs and plans in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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SINCLAIR Archdeacon J. S.
The Story of Cirencester Parish Church [St. John Baptist]. Originally written J.S Sinclair. Revised in 1945 by W.I. Croome. NEAR FINE COPY
Sm. 8vo., with photographs (a number full-page) in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With trade advertisements.
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SHORTER Clement K.
Highways and Byways in Buckinghamshire. With Illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs. [First Pocket Edition].
8vo., First Pocket Edition, with a frontispiece, very numerous illustrations in the text (a number full-page) and a folding map; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, covers lightly faded else a very good, bright, clean copy.
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SHORT B.C.
Poole. The Romance of its Early History.
8vo., First Paperback Edition, with 5 plates and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at end. This work was published simultaneously in boards and wrappers. Both forms are scarce; copies in wrappers in this condition are rare.
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SIDMOUTH
Sidmouth By-Paths. Eighth Edition 1934. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Eighth Edition, with 2 large folding maps coloured in outline; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, yapped edges, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. Early editions are scarce, especially in this condition. Brockett 65970 (recording the 1929 and 1939 editions)
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SIDNEY Hon. Mary
Historical Guide to Penshurst Place. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title in red and black, and 8 plates; original printed wrappers, upper wrapper and backstrip lettered in blue, a remarkably bright, clean, well-preserved copy. With the publisher's sales slip, printed in red, tipped-in to frontispiece verso. S CARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett, p.292 (recording the first edition of 1903).
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HOYLAND John
A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits & Present State of the Gypsies. Designed to develop the Origin on this singular People, and to promote the Amelioration of their Condition. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, some very minor spotting (mainly marginal); original grey-blue boards, vellum back, paper label lettered in manuscript (a little chipped and faded), uncut, a remarkably crisp, clean copy. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOSEPH STORRS, WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With 2pp of publisher's advertisments of other works (including the revised edition of Hoyland's 'Epitome of the History of the World') bound in at end. John Hoyland (1750-1831), Quaker, writer on gipsies and author of other works, wrote this seminal study as a result of 'observing the very destitute and abject condition of the Gipsy race in the counties of Northampton, Bedford and Hertford'. The work is based on that of Grellman. For further details on Hoyland, his temporary disassociation with Quaker society (due apparently to his romantic entanglement with a gipsy girl) and his involvement with gipsies in general, see DNB. PRESENTATION COPIES FROM HOYLAND ARE RARE. A SPLENDID COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL WORKS ON GIPSIES EVER WRITTEN.
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SHAW Joseph
Parish Law: or, a Guide to Justices of the Peace, Ministers, Church-Wardens, Overseers of the Poor, Constables, Surveyors of the Highways, Vestry-Clerks and all Others concern'd in Parish Business. Fourth Edition. REMARKABLY CRISP, CLEAN COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
8vo., Fourth Edition, on laid paper, title and text partly in black letter; eighteenth century full calf, sides with double frame border, supplemented at joint edge by decorative fillet, back with five raised bands, gilt dentelles (faded at fore edges), expertly rebacked in calf to style with old backstrip laid down, a remarkably crisp, clean copy in period binding. With 3pp publishers' catalogue bound in at end. Shaw's compendium remained the standard reference on parochial jurisprudence for almost two centuries. SCARCE.
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SHARPE Sir Montagu
The Mending of the Brynt [Brent] Bridge. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly age-worn else a very good, clean copy. Offprinted from the Transactions of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, N.S. Vol. V, Part IV, 1926. SCARCE IN ANY FORM.
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SHEPPARD Francis
Robert Baker of Piccadilly Hall and his Heirs.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 4 plates on maps and large folding map at end; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy. LTS Publication no. 127.
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SEREL T.
Historical Notes on the Church of Saint Cuthbert, in Wells; the Priory of St. John, College of La Mountery, and Chapels formerly at Southover, Southway, Polsham, and Chilcote. John, College of La Mountery, and Chapels formerly at Southover, Southway, Polsham, and Chilcote.
8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a frontispiece in autotype photograph, a plate in autotype photograph, 7 engraved plates and an illustration in the text, one or two engraved plates lightly damp0marked in lower (predominantly blank) margins; strongly bound in pebble-grain cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Detailed description of this fine 'Perp' parish church by a local amateur historian. Very scarce.
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SELHAM
St. James Church, Selham. James Church, Selham. A Church Guide. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original photographic wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
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SCORE G. F.
Guide to Wimborne Minster: its Monuments and Curiosities. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., with frontispiece and 5 plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a remarkably bright, clean copy. A very nice copy of a standard guide first published in 1893.
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SCOTT A.B.
Old Days and Ways in Newton Mearns.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a frontispiece and 4 plates by Sir D. Y. Cameron; cloth, gilt back, covers a little age-marked and rubbed else a good, sound copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, with a copy of the original 4pp prospectus bound in at end.
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SCOTT Rev. Canon G. S.
A Short History of the Church of St. Faith, Havant. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with full-page photograph in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. Reprinted from the 'Winchester Diocesan Chronicle'. SCARCE.
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