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FINBERG H.P.R.
Tavistock Abbey. A Study in the Social and Economic History of Devon [Second Edition, revised].
8vo., Best Edition, with 2 plates and a folding map; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly spotted and chipped at head and tail of backstrip. This important study was first published at Cambridge in 1951. It is reprinted here with the necessary corrections
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FINN R.W.
The English Heritage. [New and Revised Edition].
8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates and 7 maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper. Significantly expanded version of a work first published in 1937.
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FOWLER J.K.
Hayles and Beaulieu. A brief History and Guide to Hayles Abbey. A Daughter House of Beaulieu.
Sm. 8vo., with a folding frontispiece after an etching, 12 plates, 2 full-page illustrations, a pedigree and a map in the text, 2 large folding plans and 2 folding maps on japon; boards, holland back, paper labels, a very good, clean copy. With the errata slip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR (sometime Warden of Beaulieu and author of its standard history) WITH HIS UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION. Panels of text and illustrations from the dustwrapper have been affixed to the paste-downs and rear endpapers, and a relevant cutting loosely inserted
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FOX Levi
The Borough Town of Stratford-upon-Avon. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 32 plates and 3 plans in the text; red buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the Corporation's presentation bookplate on front paste-down
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FUSSELL G.E.
Old English Farming Books 1523-1793. Fitzherbert to the Board of Agriculture. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece and 4 plates; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 475).Much-needed re-issue in a single volume of the author's indispensable 'OId English Farming Books' '(1947) and 'More Old English Farming Books' (1950).
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GRETTON Mary Sturge
Burford Past and Present [Revised Edition]. [Revised Edition].
8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece and 22 plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, covers very slightly faded else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter defective at head of backstrip and lightly frayed at edges.
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GRIMES W.F.
The Prehistory of Wales.
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece, 27 plates on 18 and 78 illustrations, dfiagrams and tables (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities. Published for the National Museum of Wales, this standard work was first published in 1939 as 'Guide to the Collection illustrating the Prehistory of Wales'. The aim of the present edition is to bring up to date the record and to provide a consolidated catalogue.
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HARDMAN David
Telscombe. A Village in Sussex. With Foreword by The Lord Shawcross.
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations in the text; boards, a fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter with one piece missing from upper cover.
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HARRISON David
Along the South Downs.
8vo., First Edition, with 19 plates on 16 and a double-page map; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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HAWKINS Desmond
Cranborne Chase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 35 plates on 22 and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. WITH A SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE
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HERVEY Manners W.
Annals of a Suffolk Village, being historical Notes of the Parish of Horringer.
8vo., with a frontispiece in photogravure, and 7 plates in photogravure; cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. With the engraved bookplate of A.R. Trevor. Scarce
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HIGHSMITH Dorothy
Keeper at the Shrine. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE.
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HINE Reginald L.
Relics of an Uncommon Attorney. Memoir by Richenda Scott. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 18 plates on 15, 12 illustrations in the text and facsimiles on endpapers; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter worn at head of backstrip. Collects seventeen extended essays on Hertfordshire places and topics.
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HOOPER Wilfrid
Reigate. Its Story through the Ages, including Redhill.. [Second Edition.] NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, 13 plates on 11 and 2 folding maps; tan cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Good quality facsimile re-issue of the scarce original edition of 1945.
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HOSKINS W. G.
Local History in England. NEAR FINE COPY WITH PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS
8vo., First Edition, with 9 plates on 8 and 5 maps in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. A remarkably attractive copy of a seminal work now increasingly hard to find in this condition.
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HOWARTH T. E. B.
Cambridge between two Wars. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates on 8; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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HOWARTH T.E.B.
Cambridge between two Wars.
8vo., First Edition, with 13 plates on 8; cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper.
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HUMPHRIES Vanadia
Kirtlington. An Oxfordshire Village.
4to., First Edition, with 47 plates on 16 and 47 illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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HUTCHINSON F.E.
Mediaeval Glass at All Souls College. A History and Description, based upon the Notes of the late G.M. Rushforth.
Roy. 8vo., Sole Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a coloured plate and 37 monochrome plates on 31; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little browned and frayed at extremities. Canon Hutchinson's study encompasses both the large-figure series of Apostles and women saints, and the small-figure windows depicting kings and doctors.
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JARVIS S.M.
In Search of Essex. A Traveller's Companion to the County.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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MARTIN (ed.) G.H.
The Royal Charters of Grantham, 1463-1688.
8vo., cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 400 COPIES. The work contains the Latin texts of the fifteen royal charters granted to the borough with, in each case, a parallel translation.
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KINGSLEY David
Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900. With Introduction by Helen Wallis. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and 40 plates of facsimiles; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SRS Vol. 72. With the separately printed corrigenda slip.
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LONGFORD Elizabeth
Images of Chelsea. Gallery of Prints, Harriet O'Keefe. Catalogue of Prints, Jonathan Ditchburn. 000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Roy. 4to., with 70 pages of reduced facsimiles and numerous illustrations in the text; buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. An invaluable work of reference illustrating and describing the area. The catalogue was prepared under the editorial supervision of Ralph Hyde, Keeper of Prints and Map at the Guildhall Library, City of London
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MARTIN E.W.
The Book of the Country Town.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 145 plates on 8 and 18 illustrations in the text; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR, WITH HIS SIGNED INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER AND SIGNATURE ON TITLE.
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MEYNELL Esther
Small Talk in Sussex.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 8 plates; cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded at head and tail else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Meynell's 'Sussex' (1947) was the first - and deservedly one of the most popular - of Hale's celebrated 'County Books' series. The present work brings together much matter excluded from the earlier title 'some of it because it was too personal to be relevant, some because there was not room'.
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MORANT Roland W.
Monastic and Collegiate Cheshire.
8vo., First Edition, with 64 illustrations, maps and plans (a number full-page) in the text; cloth , gilt back, a mint copy in the dustwrapper. This illustrated account deals with the area pre- and post-Dissolution. It includes chapters on hermits and anchorites, an account of the surviving fabric and a bibliography.
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MYRES J.N.L.
The Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries of Caistor-by-Norwich and Markshall, Norfolk.
Large 4to., with a frontispiece, 24 fine plates (each depicting 2 or more items), 71 full-page illustrations (each depicting a variety of figures), 8 illustrations in the text and 3 folding maps and plans coloured in outline; buckram, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. 'Reports of the Research Committee', no. XXX.
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NEWMAN Paul
Lost Gods of Albion. The Chalk Hill-Figures of Britain.
8vo., with illustrations and maps in the text; pictorial boards, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Accessible re-issue of the classic study first published in 1987.
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NEWSOME David
A History of Wellington College 1859-1959.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece and 29 monochrome plates on 24; decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in lightly creased dustwrapper
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NEWTON Douglas
The County Books. London West of the Bars. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at backstrip. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northampton. Volume III [only]. Archaeological Sites in North-West Northamptonshire. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER AND MAILING CASE
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 38 monochrome plates on 23, several folding maps, very numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text, and large folding map coloured in outline in pocket at end; original series binding of grey buckram, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's original mailing case..
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O'CONNOR Frank
The County Books. Leinster, Munster and Connaught. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original seris binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chipped at extremities. One of the scarcest titles in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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PAGET Guy
The County Books. Leicestershire. BRIGHT COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map, front free endpaper and title lightly spotted; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.
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PANNELL J.M.
Old Southampton Shores.
8vo., First Edition, with 27 plates on 16 and numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper
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PARKER Eric
The County Books. Surrey. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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STEER F.W.
John Philipot's Roll of the Constables of Dover Castle and Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports, 1627. With a Foreword by Sir Winston Churchill. Introduction and Notes by Francis W. Steer.
4to., with a portrait frontispiece, 8 coloured plates of arms and a monochrome facsimile; cloth, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. The only published transcript of Philipot's Roll, the original of which lies in the East Sussex Record Office. Since Philipot's document is at variance with corresponding lists (e.g. Statham, Darell, Lyon and Hasted), its publication for a wider audience was a signficant step both for scholars of the history of the Cinque Ports and for those with an interest in the county generally. Woods, B54.
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PILLING John
Oxfordshire Houses.
4to., First Edition, with numerous plates and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper
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PONTING Kenneth G.
The Woollen Industry of South-West England.
4to., First Edition, with 55 plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate and small stamp on verso of title.
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RUSSAN L.
Historic Streets of London. An alphabetical Handbook. [With Illustrations of Old London reproduced from the original Etchings in the Goss Collection].
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates (2 double-page and one folding) and different front and rear endpaper maps; cloth, a notably bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter wanting half of the mounted panoramic view of 'Old London Bridge' (present also as a folding plate). A very pleasant copy of an attractive street index, presented with charming plates in a handy pocket-size format.
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SCOTT Hardiman
Secret Sussex. Photographs by John Milner.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 12 plates on 8; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter worn and frayed at extremities
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SIMMONS (ed.) Jack
English County Historians. First Series.
8vo., First Edition, A LL PUBLISHED, with 9 full-page illustrations and several pedigrees in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The first work in a series unfortunately not carried further. The eight biographical essays are devoted to Atkyns, Borlase, Hasted, Hutchins, Nicolson & Burn, Thoroton, Worsley and Wright.
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SINGLETON Frank
The English Lakes. Illustrated from coloured Photographs by Wilfred Elms. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 23 coloured plates; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one two marginal chips. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
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STANLEY Christopher
The History of Britain. An Aerial Survey.
Oblong 4to., with very numerous spectacular coloured illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
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SUMNER Heywood
Cuckoo Hill. The Book of Gorley. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured illustrations by the author in the text, decorative endpapers; ivory cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The endpaper patterns are from Sumner's 'Quercus' design of 1908.
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THICKNESSE S.G.
Abbots Langley.
Sm. 4to., with 4 plates and an illustration in the text; decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter defective at head and tail of backstrip. Second impression of a work first published earlier in the same year.
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THOMAS Sir William Beach
The County Books. Hertfordshire. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head and tail of backstrip. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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THOMAS William Beach
A Year in the Country. Edited and introduced by J.C. Trewin with Decorations by Philip Gough.
8vo., First Edition, with decorative title and several illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter just a little chipped at head and tail of backstrip. With a relevant cutting affixed to front paste-down and book token illustraion affixed to front free endpaper.
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TUPLIN W.A.
Great Western Saints and Sinners.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates; cloth, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Ottley, 11952
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WARREN C. Henry
The County Books. Essex. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.
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VESEY-FITZGERALD Brian
The County Books. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series, of which this author was the conceiver and general editor.
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