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19598vo., with plates and a plan; armorial wrappers, sewed as issued, a fine copy.
19358vo., with illustrations; pictorial wrappers, yapped edges, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19298vo., First Edition, with numerous sepia-toned photographs (many full-page) interleaved with the calendar, and pictorial endpapers; red and black patterned cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, red silk marker, backstrip lightly dulled else a near fine copy. Issued with the compliments of the company. The calendar leaves are perforated to facilitate removal, so copies are often found incomplete. This copy has the calendar complete and unmarked. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
19952 vols., 8vo., First Edition; pictorial and printed wrappers, folded and wire-stitched as issued, a fine copy.
19118vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with folding frontispiece map, 24 plates and map, title spotted, some light foxing (mainly marginal) throughout; green cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.
19678vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper plans; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19638vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs in the text; burgundy cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19068vo. First Edition, with frontispiece, plates and large folding map at rear; grey cloth, faux-vellum back and corners, gilt back, uncut, case a little shaken else a good sound copy.
19798vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; green cloth, gilt back, beige endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19288vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges a little dusty; original red buckram, backstrip with paper label, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Collects numerous articles and essays originally penned by Swinnerton as the London letter to the New York 'Bookman' between 1920 and 1927. Very elusive in anything like this condition.
19528vo. First Edition with numerous charts and tables; blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19408vo. First Edition with frontispiece and plates neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth backstrip lettered in black a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A POSTCARD PORTRAIT OF THE REV. JOSPEH PARKER MOUNTED ON HALF-TITLE AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF LESLIE WEATHERHEAD MOUNTED ON TITLE VERSO FACING FOREWORD AND A SIGNED POSTCARD PORTRAIT OF REV. R J CAMPBELL MOUNTED ON REAR F
18552 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
20048vo. First Edition with illustrations and plans in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
1928Roy. 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
20024to. 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.
19118vo. First Edition with frontispiece and very numerous photographs maps and plans in the text; blue cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt gilt top a near fine copy. A STANDARD REFERENCE AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19854to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; ivory cloth, gilt back. a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH HIS HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE.
1998Sm. 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.
19383 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 frontispieces and 82 plates and plans, neat signature on front free free endpaper of third volume; l printed boards, green cloth backs gilt, uncut (first two volumes), green cloth, gilt back (third volume), a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrapper to first volume clean set in dustwrapper (wrappers of first two volumes faded at backstrip). WITH AN A.L.s FROM THE AUTHOR LOOSELY INSERTED IN FIRST VOLUME. Arguably the finest modern description of the Abbey, this archeo-liturgical study concentrates on the post-reformation period. The numerous changes to the choir and high altar are given in detail, including Wren's classical reredos, its destruction and its successors, the sedilia, the transept screens, the destruction of the thirteenth-century choir stalls and the revolutionary changes of 1848. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.
19128vo. 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
1948Sm. 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.
18828vo. 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.
1890Folding 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.
19338vo., 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.