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19614to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 56 plates on 31 and 6 full-page plans in the text, endpapers very lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little rubbed and frayed at extremities. Dickinson's account covers many of the largest and some humbler monastic houses. The architectural chapters are based on lectures given for the Faculty of Fine Arts at Cambridge.
19714to., 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.
19298vo., on laid paper, endpapers lightly marked; buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
19498vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, 44 plates on 30 and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped, mildly spotted dustwrapper. An uncommon Batsford in unusually good state.
19858vo., Second Impression thus, with portrait frontispiece and 13 plates; green cloth, upper board elaborately framed and blocked in gilt, gilt back, green top, beige endpapers, a fine copy. The blocking on front board is from a design by the eminent bookbinder Roger Payne.
19808vo., Third Impression thus, with portrait frontispiece and 19 plates; red cloth, upper board elaborately framed and blocked in gilt, gilt back, red top, beige endpapers, a fine copy. The blocking on front boards is from a design by the eminent bookbinder Roger Payne.
19484 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 4 frontispieces, very numerous plates and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in the dustwrapper (one price-clipped). Wymer's delightful sequence, covering virtually the whole of England, is neither a gazetteer nor the usual rural eulogy. Rather, he sets out to compare and contrast traditional variations between one county and another, emphasising industries, customs, superstitions, legends, folklore and, above all, people. It is an unusual approach, based on a charming prose style and enhanced by evocative illustrations both photographic and line. A lovely set, and uncommon in this condition
19844to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs in sepia and maps throughout; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With a relevant cutting loosely inserted. A lovely copy of this wide-ranging survey.
19938vo., First Edition; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The eleventh novel in the Queens of England series.
19342 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispieces and 137 plates, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpapers; original navy blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, a near fine copy. Lovely set of this standard reference first published in 1934. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION
19398vo., First Edition, with numerous sepia-toned plates, many line illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, fore-edges lightly mottled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at heads of backstrip. One of the original twenty-six volumes in this famous series. The first edition is uncommon in this condition.
19818vo., First Edition; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO THE LIBRARY OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL WITH BOOKPLATE INSCRIBED IN MS ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Very scarce.
19698vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and a double-page map, neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1976Sm. oblong 4to., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous charming full-page illustrations throughout; blue cloth gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Wholly charming evocation of the Edwardian age by the illustrator probably best known for his work in the Miss Read novels.
19918vo., First Edition; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, buff endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The ninth novel in the Queens of England series.
19898vo., First Edition; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back,, red endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The seventh novel in the Queens of England series.
19728vo., Second Edition, with very numerous plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Mee's first edition was published in 1940 and reached its sixth impression in 1959. This new, heavily revised and updated edition is augmented by entirely new photographs. Darroch & Taylor 588.
19648vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs and diagrams in the text and pictorial endpapers; olive cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
19668vo., First Edition, with maps; green cloth, gilt back, green top, a very good clean copy. Publisher's review copy with courtesy slip loosely inserted.
19558vo., First Edition, with 2 plates, a full-page in the text and a folding map; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19318vo., First Edition, on laid paper; with 21 maps in the text; original terracotta buckram, gilt back, an unusually bright, crisp, clean copy.
18323 vols., 8vo., Third Edition; strongly bound in mind-nineteenth century half morocco, straight-grain red cloth boards, backs with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, green floral endpapers, a very good, bright, firm set.
20054 vols., 8vo., cloth, gilt backs, a fine set. Facsimiles of twenty-one texts of 16th and 17th century primary sources
19104to., First Edition, with a frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, and 114 pages of plates; original green cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, lower hinge starting else a very good, clean copy. A standard reference, and uncommon in this condition.
19855 vols., 8vo., Second Impression thus, with 5 frontispieces and numerous plates; blue cloth, upper boards elaborately framed and blocked in gilt, gilt backs, blue tops, beige endpapers, a near fine set in publishr's board slip-cases. The blocking on front boards is from a design by the eminent bookbinder Roger Payne.
