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19628vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, text in black letter; original navy blue buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
19608vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, illustrated title, 16plates on 14 and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text, presentation inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Catalogue of the collection of printing specimens and artefacts at the famous Fleet Street pub. Lists 140 items together with essays on The Printed Page by A. Lloyd-Taylor and The Printed Illustration by John Lewis.
1932Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 7 plates, 8 illustrations (one full-page) in the text and a folding map; original beige boards, upper board framed and lettered in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. A remarkable copy. Extremely scarce, especially in this condition.
19478vo., Second Impression thus, with a frontispiece and 32 plates on 25; burgundy cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. Nice copy of Hughes' classic trilogy comprising A London Child of the Seventies (1934), A London Girl of the Eighties (1936) and A London Home in the Nineties (1937). First published as a single volume in the previous year.
1926Roy. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in brown and blue, coloured title-vignette, 35 fine full-page coloured or tinted illustrations, and numerous coloured or tinted illustrations in the text; original decorative cloth gilt, gilt back, blue top, bevelled edges, a good, clean copy of an early Maxwell.
1947Folio, 8pp (one blank) with a large folding plan; wire-stitched as issued, one or two small rust marks as often else a near fine copy. 'Supplements to the London Gazette' are of great value to the naval and military historian. In many cases they represent the first publicly published accounts of the engagements concerned, and normally contain excellent maps and plans together with direct transcripts from official despatches not easily available elsewhere.This supplement includes the following transcripts: Cunningham (CinC Mediterranean): despatch to Admiralty 16 January 1941; Boyd (Captain of HMS Illustrious): despatch to Admiralty 13 November 1940; Lyster ( Rear-Admiral Commanding Mediterranean Aircraft Carriers): covering note 26 November 1940; fine folding plan of the harbour and environs with attack details noted.
19798vo., with several photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
19648vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, a double-page coloured plate and 16 monochrome plates on 10; pictorial boards lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, black top, a fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF TIN PLATE WORKERS ALIAS WIRE WORKERS WITH ITS COLOURED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY FREDERICK ERNEST CLEARY, MASTER OF THE COMPANY. Published to commemorate the tercentenary of the Company.
19548vo., First Edition, on laid paper, preface in red and black; original printed wrappers, covers lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy of a scarce work. The catalogue lists 118 notable exhibits, based largely on the renowned collection of Charles E. Feinberg. 'This exhibition is in a sense the visit that Walt Whitman had always wanted to make. The letters and presentation copies of his books shown here are intimately connected with his literary friendships in the British Isles. Noteworthy acquaintances through correspondence were Tennyson, Swinburne, Ruskin, Dowden, Symonds and others'. Foreword
19004to., Sole Edition, with 49 fine full-page facsimiles; boards, half vellum, uncut, covers somewhat age-marked else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. The catalogue covers Churchwardens' Accounts from 1256-1868, Overseers' Accounts from 1561-1846, Rate Books, Poor and Watch Rates, Vestry Minutes and Letter Books, with numerous extracts in each case. An Appendix details the Inventories of the Goods, Jewels and Ornaments in the Church of St. Margaret, 1511, 1572, and 1614-15. John Edward Smith, author of numerous standard works of the history of Westminster, was sometime Clerk to the Vestry.
19998vo., First Edition thus, with coloured plates and endpaper pedigrees; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red, gilt back, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case
19768vo., Sixth Edition, with 2 plans in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
1898Sm. 4to., Best Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 7 plates, endpapers lightly spotted; marbled boards, cloth back gilt, backstrip lettered in MS, uncut, covers age-marked, short split in upper joint but binding entirely sound, internally a very good, clean copy. Delightful period guide withy numerous trade advertisements. This, the second edition, is thoroughly revised with much new matter. VERY SCARCE
188516mo., on laid paper, with a woodcut frontispiece COLOURED BY HAND and numerous woodcuts in the text; newly and skilfully bound in marbled boards of the period, ORIGINAL PAPER LABEL PRESERVED, ORIGINAL TIES MOUNTED (one defective), an unusually fresh, clean copy. Published by Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press ('Rights Reserved: Wrongs Revenged'). The considerable popularity of the author's 'London Cries' published two years earlier at the price of one guinea prompted 'the publication of this additionally illustrated extension at the more popular price of a shilling'. With 6pp publisher's catalogue at end. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19098vo., First Edition, ALL PUBLISHED; grey cloth, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, a fine copy. Uncommon
19302 vols., 8vo., with 2 frontispieces ad 14 plates; original blue cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, a near fine set . With 6pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end of second volume. A lovely set, and scarce in this condition.
19278vo., First Edition; original dark green cloth, upper board blocked with regimental crest in silver and red, boards lightly age-marked, backstrip faded and lightly pulled at head else a very good, bright, clean copy. Extremely scarce. Sutcliffe, p.464; White, p.205.
19488vo., with a frontispiece, 79 plates on 48 and illustrations in the text; buckram gilt, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. This classic study was first issued in 1945.
1804Sm. 8vo., First Edition; sewed as issued, disbound, a very fresh, crisp, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
19548vo., original printed wrappers, neat signature on front cover else a very good, clean copy. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE.
1982Roy. 4to., First Edition, with 4 plates on maps and large folding map at end; cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a fine copy. LTS Publication no. 127.
19524to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs and illustrations in the text, and playbill endpapers on pink stock, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper verso; original white boards, upper board blocked in red and lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy.
19308vo., Second Edition; original red cloth, gilt back, backstrip mildly age-faded (but all gilt entirely legible), a very good, clean copy. Published five years after the first edition with a few corrections but omitting the illustrations. A scholarly study of the life and work of the poorer classes. Nice copy of a standard reference by one of the foremost historians of her generation. Pargellis & Medley 3268.
1980Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous photographs in the text and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19702 vols., in 1, roy. 8vo., with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at edges. High quality facsimile reissue of Baretti's original account of 1770, the first eighteenth-century narrative in English of travel in the Peninsula