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WATKIN Bruce
Buckinghamshire. A Shell Guide. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of grey cloth, backstrip blocked in navy, a near fine copy in unclipp Expanded version of Nash's original edition of 1937.
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SCARFE Norman
Cambridgeshire. [A Shell Guide]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, very numerous photographs (a number full-page)in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of beige cloth, backstrip blocked in dark red, a near fine copy in unclippe SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
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THOROLD Henry
County Durham. A Shell Guide. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; green cloth, backstrip blocked in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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PITT-RIVERS Michael
Dorset. A Shell Guide. Incorporating Notes by Andrew Wordsworth. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., Second Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, backstrip blocked in black, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Expanded version of the original edition of 1935.
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VEREY David
Herefordshire. A Shell Guide. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED SECOND STATE DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth backstrip blocked in yellow a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is the second state showing multiple photographs. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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HEALEY R.M.
Hertfordshire. A Shell Guide. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition with frontispiece title-vignette numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text double-page coloured map and pictorial endpapers; original series binding of red cloth backstrip lettered in brown a very good bright clean copy i
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VAUGHAN-THOMAS Wynford
South and Mid Wales.. The New Shell Guides. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured title-spread, numerous coloured and monochrome illustrations (a number full-page), and maps in the text; pictorial boards, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ANDREWS James
Reminiscences of Epsom. Being a Paper read a Meeting of the Epsom and District Literary Society, 8 March 1903. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY
8vo. with portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; pictorial wrappers a fine copy. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1904.
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FRERE Sheppard
Britannia. A History of Roman Britain.
4to. First Edition with a coloured frontispiece 52 monochrome plates on 32 12 maps and illustrations (one double-page and several full-page) in the text and a large folding plan small neat signature on front free endpaper; original buckram gilt gilt back Frere was Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford; this famous account swiftly became a standard reference.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Barnstaple and Exmoor. Popular Edition. One Inch, Sheet 118. [Ellis Martin cover].
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21.x 28.5 ins (approx. 53.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 3.5 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers a very good bright clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1932 reissue; the covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Clacton-on-Sea and Harwich. Popular Edition. One Inch, Sheet 98. [Ellis Martin cover].
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21.x 28.5 ins (approx. 53.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 3.5 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers a very good clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1932 [third] reissue; the covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Map of Colchester and District. Coloured Edition. One Inch, Sheet 99. [Ellis Martin cover].
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21.x 28.5 ins (approx. 53.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 3.5 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers covers lightly browned else a very good bright clean copy. The One Inch Coloured Edition dates from 1904. The present copy is the 1914 reissue; the covers are Ellis Martin's Royal Arms with mantling, dark red and brown variant. Browne, 10.2. SCARCE.
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Newquay. Popular Edition. One Inch, Sheet 143. [Ellis Martin cover].
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21.x 28.5 ins (approx. 53.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 3.5 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers a very good bright clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1931 reissue; the covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
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ORDNANCE SURVEY
Ordnance Survey Contoured Road Map of Truro and St. Austell. One Inch, Sheet 143. [Ellis Martin cover].
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21.x 28.5 ins (approx. 53.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 3.5 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers a very good bright clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'cyclist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1930 reissue; the covers are black with red sheet name and location map. Browne, 11.1.a
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EVANS George Ewart
The Horse in the Furrow. [Illustrations by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Second Impression]. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. Second Impression with illustrations some light offsetting to free endpapers neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth gilt back a very good clean copy in dustwrapper the latter lightly frayed at extremities and with one short closed tear. Much-needed reissue of the original edition of 1960 and now scarce in its own right
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EVANS George Ewart
The Horse in the Furrow. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FRERE Sheppard
Britannia. A History of Roman Britain. [BCA Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition thus with coloured frontispiece 52 monochrome plates on 32 12 maps and illustrations (one double-page and several full-page) in the text and a large folding plan; purple cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Frere was Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford; this famous account swiftly became a standard reference.
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HUNT Leigh
The Old Court Suburb; or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotal. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. HANDSOME SET IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
2 vols. 8vo. Second Edition with title-vignettes; attractively bound in contemporary half calf marbled boards backs with flat bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments with black leather labels framed and lettered in gilt all other compartments t Published in the same year as the first edition
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JENKYNS Richard
Westminster Abbey. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with illustrations and plans in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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COOPER C.S.
The Outdoor Monuments of London. Statues, Memorial Buildings, Tablets and War Memorials. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo. on laid paper with a frontispiece and 31 plates; original green buckram upper board lettered in black gilt back a near fine copy. Nice copy of a standard reference
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MUSGRAVE Clifford
Royal Pavilion. An Episode in the Romantic. [Enlarged Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY
4to. Enlarged Edition with frontispiece and numerous coloured and monochrome plates; grey boards red cloth back lettered in gilt grey top a near fine copy. Revised and enlarged version of the original edition of 1951.
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BETJEMAN John
Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide.
8vo. First Edition with numerous plates throughout and folding coloured map; red boards upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white and black boards lightly age-marked else a very good bright clean copy. With contemporary signature and accompanying personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Peterson A16; Stapleton p.25.
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NORWAY Arthur H.
Highways and Byways in Yorkshire. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. FIRST POCKET EDITION
Sm. 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispiece very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) and folding map in red and black; original series binding of green cloth upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and blind gilt back a very good bright clean c Spielmann & Jerrold 30 (recording the first edition).
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IVERSLEIN Gry
Impressions of Holland Park. Photography by Gry Iverslein. Introduction by Michael Jacobs. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition with numerous coloured photographs throughout and decorative endpapers; blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in blind a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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RICHARDS Brinley
History of the Lynnfi Valley. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with portrait frontispiece and numerous photographs and illustrations in the text neat inscription on front free endpaper; red cloth gilt back a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE
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DUMAYNE Alan
Southgate. A Glimpse into the Past. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition with numerous photographs in the text small neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth gilt back a a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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ATKINSON Rev. J.C.
Memorials of Old Whitby. Or, Historical Gleanings from Ancient Whitby Records. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY
8vo. First Edition with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) 10 plates 10 illustrations and drawings in the text and a folding map; original green diced cloth boards ruled in blind gilt back dark green endpapers uncut a remarkably bright crisp cop
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DENNY Barbara
Kensington Past. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS
Sm. 4to. First Edition with numerous photographs throughout; blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS ON TITLE. SCARCE.
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MAXWELL Donald
The Pilgrim's Way in Kent. SCARCE MAXWELL IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo. First Edition with numerous illustrations and plans by the author in the text; original printed wrappers sewed as issued a remarkably good clean copy of an uncommon work. Published by the 'Kent Messenger' newspaper group this delightful place-by-place account of the route to Canterbury is now very hard to find in this state.
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SMITH Mrs. A.M.
The Roll-Call of Westminster Abbey. Fifth Edition. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY
8vo. Fifth Edition with frontispiece (original tissue guard browned present) numerous plates and 5 large folding plans on japon; blue pictorial cloth upper board blocked in yellow gilt back covers very lightly dust-soiled else a very good bright clean cop A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER UNSIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With the erratum slip mounted facing text as proper. Mrs Smith's third work on the Abbey was first published in 1902. It provides a detailed survey of
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MAIS S.P.B.
It Isn't Far From London. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Sm. 8vo. with frontispiece plates and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth backstrip lettered in black a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Attractive copy of one of the author's delightful 'Open Air' books first published in 1930. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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STANLEY Arthur Penrhyn
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey. Fifth Edition, with the Author's final Revisions. WITH THE AUTHOR'S FINAL REVISIONS
8vo. Fifth Edition with frontispiece title-vignette and numerous illustrations and plans throughout; blue cloth upper board framed and blocked in blind gilt back chocolate endpapers uncut case slightly loose else a very good bright clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down erratum slip mounted following chronological table and 24pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Best edition of a standard reference.
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WACHER John
The Towns of Roman Britain. Second Edition, fully revised. FINE COPY
4to. Best Edition with very numerous illustrations maps and plans in the text; original pictorial wrappers a fine copy. First published by Batsford in 1975 Wacher's renowned study established itself almost immediately as the new standard reference. This is the substantially revised and updated edition taking into account the significant advances in urban archaeology and
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ATKINSON J.C.
Forty Years in a Moorland Parish. Reminiscences and Researches in Danby in Cleveland. [Second Edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with lithographed frontispiece, plate, illustration and full-page map in the text, and a folding tinted map; original green diced cloth, boards ruled in blind, gilt back, uncut, green endpapers, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. This classic work was first published in April 1891; the second edition, with corrections and additions, appeared in May. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION
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GREENFIELD Florence M.
Round About Old Storrington [with] More About Old Storrington. STORRINGTON COMPLETE
2 vols., 8vo., and oblong 4to. , with numerous photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers very lightly dust-soiled else a near fine set. First volume: Second Impression 1973; second volume: First Impression, 1977. Complete sets are very scarce.
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JENKINSON H.I.
Jenkinson's Smaller Practical Guide to the Isle of Wight. Third Edition. BRIGHT COPY WANTING ONE MAP
8vo., Third Edition, with engraved map as frontispiece, WANTING SECOND MAP; original green cloth, boards with double frame border in black, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, primrose endpapers, case a little loose but a good working copy. With 46pp of trade advertisements at end. First published in 1876. SCARCE. Anderson, p.123.
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ARMSTRONG Anthony
England our England. A Vague and Unauthenticated Gudie to some English Towns. With Drawings by Treyer Evans. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; red boards lettered in black, bluie cloth back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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MADAN Falconer
Oxford outside the Guide-Books. Second Issue, Revised. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates and plans (a number folding); pictorial blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper, and trade advertisements at rear. Revised and updated version of the first edition of 1923. Cordeaux & Merry 418.
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EVANS A. A.
On Foot in Sussex. A Loiterer's Notebook.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 16 plates on 15; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy.
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CLUNN Harold
Famous South Coast Pleasure Resorts Past and Present. Their historical Associations, their Rise to Fame and a Forecast of their future Development. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean, fresh copy. One of the most profusely illustrated studies, covering the resorts of Bournemouth, Brighton, Eastbourne, Folkestone, Hastings, Torquay and Worthing. Bennett, p.206; not recorded by Brockett.
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ROLSTON G.R.
Haslemere 1850-1950. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with plates; original navy buckram, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with one medijum-length closed tear on front panel. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS SCARCE, ESPEIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
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BACON G.W.
Bacon's New Map of Central London. Divided into Half Mile Squares and Circles. Scale: Four Inches to the Mile. A RARE SURVIVAL
Folding engraved map printed on fine ivory linen, size: 21 x 28 ins (approx. 53.0 x 71.0 cms) folding in 36 panels to 6 x 3 ins (approx. 15.o x 7.5 cms), printed surface very lightly browned (rather more heavily so along central fold), a few locations marked with red ink ; original green cloth slip-case framed in blind and lettered in black 'Flexible Map of London' with deckled thumb-hole, a very good, bright copy. Covers the area from Islington (north) to Oval (south); Notting Hill (west) to Stepney (east). IN THIS CONDITION A RARE SURVIVAL. Hyde, 'Printed Maps of Victorian London', no. 201.
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UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Looking Back. The University of Manchester. NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs throughout; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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SURREY
Surrey as it was One Hundred Years Ago. Twenty-Four Reproductions of Old Views. With short descriptive Text.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 24 fine plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, front wrapper lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. Views include Box Hill, Burford Lodge, Peper Harrow Church, Guildford, Wonersh Park, Sutton Place, Richmond Hill, Windlesham Church.
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SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Sussex Archaeological Collections Vol. 89. Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, and numerous photographs, illustrations, diagrams and plans (a number folding) in the text, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Major papers relate to West Blatchington, Chichester, Highdown Hill, Harting, Combe Hill.
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MASSINGHAM Harold John
London Scene. WITH ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece and plates; black cloth, gilt back, red top (faded), uncut, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, crisp, clean copy. With the fine engraved armorial bookplate of Frances Evelyn, Countess of Warwick, on front paste-down.
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Percival John
The Roman Villa. An Historical Introduction. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with illustrations, maps and plans in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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BAINES Edward
History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York. With select Lists of the Merchants and Traders of London, and the principal commercial and manufacturing Towns of England; and a Variety of other commercial Information. Vol. I: West Riding. Vol. II: East and North Ridings. SOLID COPY (AS USUAL WITHOUT THE MAPS)
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, wanting all advertised maps and plans as usual, some moderate age-browning (but nowhere affecting legibility); crudely bound in tan leather [sheep?], backs with red leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt, a good, sound working copy of a scarce work. The Directory was compiled by W. Parson. The index to the work as a whole in included in the second volume. With the contemporary binder's tickets of E.Orthick of Leeds (first volume) and J. Nicholson of Bradford (second volume) on front paste-downs; both tickets must surely have been carried forward from the original bindings. The maps and plans advertised by the publisher were actually issued as a separate volume and are seldom, if ever, present. Nevertheless, a very substantial body of information and an invaluable county reference. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE. Anderson p.310; Boyne XV.
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DURKAN John
The University of Glasgow 1451-1577. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Includes an extensive bibliography. SCARCE
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PRIESTLEY Harold
London. The Years of Change. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with plates; brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Vividly-written account of London in the seventeenth century.
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