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GRAY J.S.
Victorian and Edwardian Sussex from old Photographs. Introduction and Commentaries by James S. Gray.
8vo., with a frontispiece and very numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GREEN P.R.
The Atlas Flora of Somerset.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with 45 coloured plates on 16 and many hundreds of distribution maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GREY Edward
The Cottage Book. The Undiscovered Country Diary of an Edwardian Statesman. Edited and Introduced by Michael Waterhouse. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., with illustrated title-spread, profusely illustrated with sepia-toned photographs and coloured illustrations in the text, and photographic endpapers; original printed wrappers with fold-ins. Delightfully illustrated diary of natural history and daily life in Hampshire's Upper Itchen Valley.
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GRIEVES Keith
Sussex in the First World War. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SRS Vol.84. Comprehensive survey of Sussex attitudes and experiences in the Great War, including the threat of invasion, logistcs and rationsing. Appendices cover the deployment of all battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment.
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GRIGSON Geoffrey
Freedom of the Parish. [Pelynt in Cornwall]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 18 plates on 16 and a double-page map in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A valuable and delightfully personal account of the poet's birthplace, the village of Pelynt. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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GUILMANT Aylwin
Bygone Steyning, Bramber and Beeding.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map, very numerous illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GUILMANT Aylwin
Surrey of One Hundred Years Ago. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, half-title and title-vignettes, very numerous sepia-toned photographs in the text and photographic front and rear endpapers, small neat inscription on front free endpaper verso; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Fine collection of nineteenth century photographs with extensive textual descriptions.
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HADFIELD C.N.
Charnwood Forest. A Survey. With a Foreword by Lt.-Col. Sir Robert Martin.
8vo., Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece, numerous plates and endpaper maps, gift label affixed to front free endpaper, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Published for Leicestershire County Council, this is the most comprehensive study of the forest to date.
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HAGGARD Lilias Rider
Too Late for Tears.
8vo., First Edition, with 12 plates on 8 and three full-page pedigrees in the text, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The intimate history of the Norfolk Margitsons in the early years of Queen Victoria. Lilias Rider Haggard was the youngest daughter of Sir Henry. Darroch & Taylor 3055.
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HARE A.
The Georgian Theatre in Wessex.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition
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LANG Jennifer
Pride without Prejudice. The Story of London's Guilds and Livery Companies with a Foreword by Sir Hugh Wontner.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, very numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and frayed with minor loss around head of backstrip.
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LINDSAY Maurice
The County Books. The Lowlands of Scotland. Glasgow and the North. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published in Hales's seminal County Books series edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.
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HARRISON Frederick
Old Brighton. Old Preston. Old Hove. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates (a number double-page), neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original maroon cloth, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy.
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HART F.H.
History of Lee and its Neighbourhood. [Eltham, Lewisham, Blackheath, Charlton, Greenwich. Facsimile Re-issue].
8vo., Second Edition, with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1882, and now uncommon in its own right. Bennett, p.238.
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HEWLETT Dorothy
Harrogate College 1893-1973.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and pictorial endpapers; armorial cloth gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HEDDERWICK Mairi
An Eye on the Hebrides. An Illustrated Journey. [Second, Revised Edition].
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous charming coloured illustrations throughout, small personal book-label on front free endpaper; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition.
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HERON-ALLEN Edward
Edward Heron-Allen's Journal of the Great War. From Sussex Shore to Flanders Fields. Edited by Brian W. Harvey and Carol Fitzgerald. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, wth photographs and maps in the text; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SRS Vol. 86.
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HICK K.C.
The Hesketh Golf Club 1885-1985 [Southport, Lancashire]. 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition, with half-title in blue, title in blue and black, very numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, upper board lettered in blue, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 750 PRIVATELY PRINTED COPIES
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HIGSON J.
Historical and Descriptive Notices of Droylsden, Past and Present. [Facsimile Reissue].
8vo., Facsimile Reissue; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1859. Now very scarce in its own right.
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HILLIER John
Ebb-Tide at Poole 1815-1851.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper, text and graphics in sepia throughout, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; and pictorial endpapers; cloth gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Due to international competition the price of fish fell sharply in the years following the Napoleonic Wars This well-presented account tells how the once-prosperous town was reduced (temporarily) to near-bankruptcy as a result. Uncommon due to short print-run.
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HODGE E.W.
Enjoying the Lakes. From Post-Chaise to National Park.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 31 plates, wanting front free endpaper; green cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A deceptively detailed and scholarly work. The author lived at Elterwater.
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HODGKINS J.R.
Over the Hills to Glory. Radicalism in Banburyshire 1832-1945.
8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates on 8; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HODSON Y.
Popular Maps. The Ordnance Survey Popular Edition One-Inch Map of England and Wales 1919-1926.
8vo., First Edition, with 13 coloured plates and 46 illustrations in the text; laminated boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Includes a full catalogue of all known printings of the 146 sheets of the map
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HOFFMAN Ann
Bocking Deanery. The Story of an Essex Peculiar.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 25 plates on 16 and 12 illustrations and facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HOLLOWAY Merlyn
Nineteenth-Century British Topographical Books with Steel Engravings. A Bibliography.
4to., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. The author worked formerly in the topography department of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
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HOPKINS John
A History of Hendon.
8vo., First Edition, with 8 plates; cloth, backstrip lettered in green, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Based largely on the Local History collection housed in Hendon Central Library.
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HOWELL Keith
Francis Frith's Kent. A Century Ago.
4to., First Edition thus, with very numerous photographs (many full-page) throughout; original pictorial boards, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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JAMES David
Class and Politics in a Northern Industrial Town: Keighley 1880-1914. Foreword by Asa Briggs.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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JAMES Godfrey
The County Books. London. The Western Reaches. PUBLISHER'S REVIEW COPY
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip. A REVIEW COPY WITH THE PUBLISHER'S RREQUEST SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HULL (ed.) F.
A Kentish Miscellany. W H LAPTHORNE'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE
8vo., First Edition, with 4 plates and a full-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published as Vol. XXI in the Kent Records series of the Kent Archaeological Society. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF THE NOTABLE KENT HISTORIAN W H LAPTHORNE AND BEARS HIS PICTORIAL BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. Collects five papers: Butcher: Canterbury's Earliest Rolls of Freemen Admissions; Williams: A Rental of the Manor of East Malling; Hull: Memoranda from the Queensborough Statute Book; Grove & Rigold: View and State of the Commandery of Swingfield; Poole: Sixteenth-Century Precedent Book of Indictments.
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INGRAM J. H.
Companion into North Riding. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with sepia-toned frontispiece, 4 sepia-toned plates and endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. Published in Methuen's sought-after 'Companion' series
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HUGHES Pennethorne
The Isle of Wight. [A Shell Guide].
4to., with a coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges
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MACKENZIE Agnes Mure
The Passing of the Stewarts [1638-1748]. [Second Edition].
8vo., Second Edition, with a folding pedigree and full-page map in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The fifth volume, complete in itself, of Agnes Mackenzie's six-volume History of Scotland. First published in 1937 and now a standard reference. Includes a bibliography. Pargellis & Medley, 3304.
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TAYLER Henrietta
Jacobite Epilogue. A Further Selection of Letters from Jacobites among the Stuart Papers at Windsor. Published by Gracious Permission of His Majesty the King. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, fore-edges lightly browned; original cloth, backstrip lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper, the latter repaired, frayed and creased at edges.
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JAQUES Juliette
Bygone Godstone.
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout and period advertisements endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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JENKIN A.K. Hamilton
Mines of Devon. Part I: The Southern Area.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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JENKINS J. Geraint
The English Farm Wagon. Origins and Structure. [New edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with 58 illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The standard work, first published in a limited edition in 1961. The appendices include a catalogue of surviving examples.
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JENNINGS (ed.) Bernard
A History of Harrogate & Knaresborough. Written by the Harrogate W. .A. Local History Group. Foreword by Asa Briggs. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 49 plates, 2 plans in the text and 16 maps; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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JERROME Peter
Petworth Fair 1189-1993.. In the Feast of St. Edmund the King NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Well-illustrated pictorial record of the ancient fair.
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JESSUP Frank W.
A History of Kent. with Maps and Pictures. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 30 plates on 16 and 15 maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. Bennett p.184.
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JOBSON Allan
Victorian Suffolk.
8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates on 16, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper
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JOBSON Allan
Under a Suffolk Sky. Illustrations by Beryl Irving.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter a little creased and frayed at edges. Steward 1163.
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KAYE Elaine
A History of Queen's College, London 1848-1972. History of Queen's College, London 1848-1972.
8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates on 8; original cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter laminated to boards.
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WOOD-LEGH (ed.) K.L.
Kentish Visitations of Archbishop William Warham and his Deputies, 1511-1512.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked with county emblem in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Kent Archaeological Society, Kent Records, Vol. XXIV. Uncommon, especially in this condition.
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KETTON-CREMER R.W.
Norfolk Assembly.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece and 7 plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter just a little browned at backstrip. Clarke & Gretton 19; Gretton, 19; Darroch & Taylor, 678.
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KETTON-CREMER R.W.
A Norfolk Gallery [Second Impression]. Norfolk Gallery [Second Impression].
8vo., Second Impression, with 8 plates, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published six months after the first edition. Includes accounts of several leading personalities of the Civil War period, among them Hamon L'Estrange, Layer, Marsham, Walpole and Repton. Clarke & Gretton, A10; Darroch & Taylor, 679 (incorrectly dated 1958!).
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LARN D.
Devon Shipwrecks.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. A standard reference
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LETHBRIDGE Richard
Tiverton Staghounds. [Second Edition]. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., Second Edition, with 32 coloured plates on 16 and very numerous monochrome photographs and facsimiles in the text; original ivory pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in brown, cream endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON HALF-TITLE. Published two months after the first edition. Extremely scarce
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LEWIS Lesley
The Private Life of a Country House (1912-1939).
8vo., First Edition, with a title-vignette, 14 plates on 8 and numerous illustrations in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Detailed and vividly recollected account of the author's childhood and adolescence at Pilgrim's Hall in Essex.
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LOOKER Samuel J.
The Worthing Cavalcade: Shelley, Trelawny and Henley. A Study of Three Titans. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities and with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. Published under the Worthing Art Development Scheme; all three authors treated are strongly associated with the resort and surrounding district.
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