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19828vo., First Edition; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, fore-edges lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With a contemporary review loosely inserted.
19618vo., Tenth Impression, with a frontispiece and very numerous sepia-toned plates; cloth, upper board and backstrip letterd in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1936 and very uncommon in this condition. Bennett, p.212.
19658vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19658vo., with very numerous photographs and a double-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19698vo., First Edition thus, with 39 plates on 24 and 2 full-page maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably revised and updated version of Mee's original edition of 1937.
19698vo., Second Edition, with numerous plates; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges. Bennett, p.212 (recording the original edition of 1936)
19854to., First Edition, with many hundreds of fine photographs throughout, bookplate scar on front paste-down; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Standard, profusely illustrated, reference covering the twenty-four counties south of a line from the Severn to the Wash
19498vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece and 18 plates on 14, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this popular study appeard in 1936.
19738vo., with 72 wood-engravings in the text; cloth, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Much-needed high quality facsimile of the original edition of 1875.
1962Roy. 8vo., Third Impression, with a coloured frontispiece, 98 plates on 48 and a large folding map; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at extremities. Rolt's classic text was first published in 1950.
19888vo., First Edition, with numerous illustrations in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19608vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper was designed and illustrated by John Piper.
19558vo., First Edition, with 32 plates and endpaper maps coloured in outline; maroon cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Delightful period piece from the earlier days of motor tourism.
18908vo., First Edition, with large folding coloured chart on japon as frontispiece, wanting [blank] front free endpaper; original black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, lemon endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. With 6pp Salvation Army catalogue at end. William Booth founded the Salvation Army in 1878. In 1890, the same year that Stanley published 'In Darkest Africa', he published his most important work with deliberate irony. Here he analyses the causes of the pauperism and vice of the period and proposes a remedy by ten expedients. These include land settlement, emigration, rescue work among prostitutes and at the prison-gate, the poor man's bank, and the poor man's lawyer. Booth's powerful arguments were convincing, money was liberally subscribed and a large part of the scheme was carried through. Printing and the Mind of Man, 560.
19342 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispieces and 137 plates; original navy blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the typographical bookplate of H S Toynbeee on front paste-downs. Hugh Stanley Toynbee was a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society, and of the Economic History Society. Universally known as 'Toyno', he worked for the British Journalists' Union for over forty years.
19528vo., First Edition thus, with 121 plates on 80, several illustrations in the text and folding map (lightly spotted); original printed wrappers, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped at head of backstrip and very lightly browned at backstrip. The dustwrapper was issued some two years after first publication. Buildings of England, BE5. Cherry 5; PC1, PJ2.
19308vo., with a coloured frontispiece and numerous monochrome illustrations in the text; original pictorial boards, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. Coloured frontispiece by S G Hulme Beaman. Nice copy of this popular compendium of ten tales for boys.
19588vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 86 plates and 43 diagrams in the text, half-title lightly spotted; original blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy. Nice copy of this scarce standard reference.
1880Roy. 8vo., with title in red and black, text in red and black within red frame surmounted by running heads in red, neat contemporary memorial inscription on front free endpaper, some light age-soiling, one or two leaves with short closed tears, some very occasional annotation; attractively bound in contemporary full roan, sides framed in blind, back with five raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in blind, bevelled boards, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, very neatly recased, covers very lightly rubbed at extremities else a very good, bright copy. With two neatly typewritten lessons (Judith xiii, 18 and Luke i, 41) mounted on blank rear preliminaries. A nice copy of a late Victorian Pulpit Communion with large type suited to public address. A most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
20078vo., First Edition, with illustrations; original boards, a near fine copy. Already very scarce.
19228vo., Fifth Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 6 plates, and 32 illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original series binding of decorative buckram, sides with multiple frame border enclosing title all in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Abbot Gasquet's comprehensive study was first published in 1906. Published in Methuen's fine 'Antiquary's Books' series.
19648vo., First Edition, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy.
19008vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 32 plates and 7 maps (one folding on japon); handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy of the original edition of the best life of Cromwell. Davies 870.
19898vo., First Edition, with 14 plates on 8; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy.
19708vo., First Edition, on laid paper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is illustrated by Nan Kivell
