Mudd, DavidMareMagnum
1979124p. illus Book
1979Spanning three continents and two eras, here is the story of the love affair between the playboy Prince of Wales, Edward VII, and Lilly Langtry, the greatest international beauty of her day. Together they set a new standard of splendor and sensuality for an entire era-the golden Edwardian Age.Their conjunction was virtually inevitable, and their affair, played out over three decades, set the very unbuttoned tone of London society, released by the Prince, the Lily, and the Marlborough House set from the long, bleak, mourning-clad winter of Victorian respectability.... and burned as bright as the Edwardian era it inaugurated. alive with all the pageantry and personalities of an extraordinarily splendid time and with a sweep and grandeur that suggest the inexorable play of historic forces on the individual destiny 372p.plates index; Book
1950A noblewoman seeking her own advantage in the dangerous politics of England under King John and Henry III. 278p. Book
1962Novel about the Welsh Owen Tudor who married Katherine of Valois, widow of Henry V and founded the Tudor dynasty Book
2011Article by Caroline Alexander "Magical Mystery Hoard" about the 3.500 objects from the Anglo-Saxon period found in Staffordshire in 2009. Vol.220 #5 November 2011[pp 38-60] Book
First edition, xvi, 169 pp., limited to 375 copies, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. The first bibliography of the famous English physician.
First edition, xvi, 169 pp., limited to 375 copies, frontis., facsimiles, orig. cloth, d.w. The first bibliography of the famous English physician.
First edition, xvi, 424, [32 adverts]pp., 3 plates, front inner hinge shaken, orig. embossed cloth, head and foot of spine frayed. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
4to, xvii, 278pp., facsimiles, orig. cloth.
First edition, xii, 443pp., frontis., 12 plates, orig. cloth. A catalogue of some 400 names of practitioners with much biographical information on each. Also, a list of works on the mathematical arts and practices.
xiv, 200pp., orig. cloth.
Third edition, [2], 38pp., some light staining to title and text, closed tear to head of title-page, disbound.
First edition, 69, [3]pp., a little soiled, disbound.
Fourth edition, [2], 21, [1]pp., text a little browned, disbound. A satire purporting to be from Gilbert Burnet to Benjamin Hoadly.
First edition, [12], 60, 69-86, [2]pp., text complete despite pagination, light water stain throughout, disbound.
First edition, [4], 19, [1]pp., texts in Latin and English, text a little stained, disbound.
First and only edition, 47, [1]pp., disbound.
First edition, 63, [1]pp., presentation inscription from the author at head of title, disbound.
First edition, 54pp., disbound.
First Edition, 4to, 4pp., caption title, disbound. Wing, A559.
4to, 28pp., disbound. Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, D102.
First and only edition, 4to, 38pp., disbound.
4to, [2], 23, [1]pp., disbound.