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1908No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with very lightly marked boards (faint cup ring), minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Foxing to end papers, a few pages and to untrimmed page edges. 142pp. A short history of the English china manufacturing factories and how to apply tests for unmarked china made before 1800.
1993No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 163pp. This issue includes Rider Haggard illustrated, Siegfried Sassoon, collecting Observer's books, Mickey Spillane, Norman Hunter, Colin Macinnes, 18th 19th century chess books.
1979No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 64pp. An account of the new ideas in architecture and town planning which came in during the Georgian period of the 18th and early 19th centuries. With colour and black & white photographs of some of the most spectacular examples.
1985No marks or inscriptions to contents. Slight creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 100pp. An account of 1685 when the exiled Duke of Monmouth landed at Lyme Regis to depose his uncle, James the Second from the throne. This adventure failed utterly, leading to executions and the judicial abuses of Judge Jeffreys' Bloody Assize.
1979Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 72pp. A study of fashion and cloting during the latter part of the 20th century. Well illustrated with drawings, some in colour.
2007Book in mint unread condition. 384pp. The most talked about art movement in the second half of the 19th century. Very well illustrated.
1933Name/date to front end paper. No other marks to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright orange and beige linen boards, small water spot to rear, foxing to page edges and minor softening to lower corners. 348pp. Historical fiction set in and around Greece in the 5th century BC near the end of the Pelopennesian War.
1999No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to upper corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 213pp. A detailed study examining the nature of the disease and contemporary opinions as to its cause together with the measures taken by both national and local government to restrict its spread and to deal with its victims. Well illustrated.
1976No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Jumonville Glen - Washington's first campaign 1754, Christian slaves and Moslem masters 12th to 19th centuries, The case of Katherine Parr and the religious future of England, William Beaw - Bishop and Secret Agent - 17th century, Mutiny at Cattaro 1918 - Austro-Hungarian fleet and Emile de Girardin and the popular press in 19th century France plus book reviews and letters.
1976No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on The Jews in Poland 1264-1795, The Battle of Sullivan's Island 1776, Etruscan Jewellery - 8th to 6th centuries BC, The Black Prince, The Abbe Raynal 1713-1796 - French historian, Sir Thomas More's House in Chelsea 1518-1534 and Eating in Paris from 16th century onwards plus book reviews and letters.
1975No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Kosciuszko - Polish Champion of American Independance - 18th century, Voyage of Admiral Cheng Ho - trading China to India and Africa - 15th century, English forests, Spaniard Diego de Landa in Mexico - 16th century, Survival of Don Quixote and the 16th century Spain it was based on, 19th centurry Russians in Central Asia and British Missions and the wives of Crimean War soldiers who served as cooks, laundresses and nurses plus book reviews and letters.
1975No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages, two tiny nicks to lower edge of front cover and no bumping to corners. 75pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on British Adventurers in South America - early 19th Century, Ausonius - 4th Century Roman poet and Valentinian I, Paul Revere's dramatic role, The Jewish Relief Act 1858, Ararat, Ancient Kingdom of Armenia 1300-600 BC, Jovellanos - a Spanish moderate 18th Century and Whitefriars in London plus book reviews and letters.
1976No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on John Wesley and America - 1730s, History in Stone - Paris, Lord Odo Russell and Roman Friends - 19th century, Balthasar Hubmaier - Anabaptist extraordinary 1480-1528 Vienna, Sir Robert Dudley - Italy 17th century, Frances Wright and Robert Dale Owen and the American Utopian communities and the Godolphin-Marlborough Duumvirate - 18th century plus book reviews and letters.
1975No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 75pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Mountains Inspire Awe and Reverence - 18th Century, Ammianus Marcellinus - Recorder of Roman Empire 4th Century AD, Sir Richard Burton and his business manager Lady Burton, Fisheries in history - tuna, herring and cod, Gerald of Wales - 12th-13th centuries, Benjamin Hoadly - a Liberal Bishop 18th Century, St George's Chapel Windsor 1348-1975 and Whaddin-in-Semington - a Wiltshire Hamlet plus book reviews and letters.
1974No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on British Empire to Commonwealth 1930, Saint James in Spanish History, St John de Crevecoeur - Quebec 1759, Women and Literature - 18th Century, Felix Nadar, the Story of Parchment as a Writing Material and Gerard Ter Borch at Munster in 1648 plus book reviews and letters.
1975No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 67pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Herman Melville and Atlantic Relations - 19th century, Bothwell, third husband of Mary Queen of Scots as a prisoner in Denmark, Dr Alfred Maudslay, traveller and scholar of the Maya civilization - 19th century, Essex and Raleigh attack the Azores 1597 but fail to destroy the Spanish fleet, John Tyler - tenth US President, Marinetti - Futurist and Fascist and The Victorian crinoline and its caricaturists plus book reviews and letters.
1976No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages, small tear to lower edge of cover and first few pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Paestum and its Museum in Southern Italy, Orsini's bomb plot and the fall of Palmerston - 1858, Alexander III of Russia - 1881, Marshal Schomberg in Portugal 1660-68, The Old Vic, John Evans- East-India Chaplain - 17th century and Fishing for Pearls in North Wales, Cumberland and Perth plus book reviews and letters.
1926Name/date to two of front pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked maroon cloth boards and bump to upper front corner. 703pp. Historical fiction set in the 15th century.
1958No marks or inscriptions to contents and minor creasing to front edge of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with slightly foxed unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated pp. Fifteen paintings by the Dutch artist plus discussion and descriptions.
19771979 Edition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 719pp. The history of the early part of the 20th century.
1980No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 119pp. European illuminated manuscript painting from the 14th and 15th centuries with forty full-page plates and descriptions plus others in the text.
1978Previous owner's place and date to front end paper and minor foxing to top of page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with small mark to faded spine and tiny nick to lower rear edge.
1994Appears unread No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease/bump to lower corner No creasing to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 492pp. A story based on Lancashire's dark past in the early 17th century and set in the Forest of Pendle.
1971Previous owner's name/date inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, a little foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny scratch to spine foot. 280pp. A study which describes the subtle and interesting relationships between private landowners and industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
1977Ex library book with usual marks and stamps, to front end paper, reverse of title page and lower page edges. The book does otherwise appear close to fine and may eveb be unread. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a tiny nick to the spine foot. 96pp. Originally published in 1586 by William Camden, this work was extensively annotated and edited by Gordon Copley. It's observations are extremely important as it covers the period when the monasteries had just been disssolved and before the destruction of ancient monuments in the Civil War and later centuries.