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19678vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a near fine copy.
19368vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers lightly faded at backstrip else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
19228vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and 114 charming ilustrations and a full-page map in the texct; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Brockett, 63910
19768vo., First Edition; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19858vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19738vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19868vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 12 plates, 3 pedigrees on 2 folders and a double-page map in the text; original blue cloth gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Already scarce, especially in this condition
19698vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, top lightly spotted else a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Collects six of the most important nineteenth century accounts of the Cornish mining economy.
19558vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 16 plates; some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, upper joint bumped near headband else a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with one neat marginal repair on rear panel.
19518vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 13 plates on 12, some very light marginal spotting (rather heavier on endpapers); cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly scuffed and soiled.
19548vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 18 plates on 16 and a double-page map in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A valuable and delightfully personal account of the poet's birthplace, the village of Pelynt. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
20004to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and tinted photographs throughout; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Nelhams, the resident gardener, gives a richly illustrated account of the family, garden and plants associated with this magnificent feature of the Scilly Isles.
19498vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges.
1997Sm. 4to., Sole Edition, with a portrait and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (this copy no. 226). The last of Rowse's works on his birthplace, published posthumously in celebration of the life of one of Cornwall's greatest men of letters. 'When Dr. Johnson was sleepless at night he occupied his mind composing Latin verses. Similarly when I can't get to sleep I take to making rhymes on Cornish place names.'
19868vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper
18618vo., First Edition, with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title vignette, 10 engraved plates and very numerous woodcut illustrations in the text; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip gilt laid down, brown endpapers, uncut, a most attractive, bright, clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. Scarce, especially in this condition.
19908vo., First Edition, with plates; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
19918vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
19808vo., First Edition, with illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Memories of St. Levan parish.
19368vo., Third Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, upper board lightly faded at upper edge else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Twenty Years at St. Hilary. [Third Edition]
1985Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy.
19478vo., First Edition, tiny signature on front free endpaper, some very faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; ivory cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue and blind, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly sunned dustwrapper. Lovely copy of Foster's psychological novel set in Cornwall. EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19518vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette, numerous drawings (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper.
19758vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper
18618vo., Second Edition, with a folding engraved map as frontispiece and 3 folding engraved maps; original green cloth, upper board withy blind frame border enclosing title and author in gilt, gilt back, red sprinkled edges, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, fresh copy. With the engraved bookplates of C J Peacock and Alfred Pounder on front paste-down and front free endpaper respectively. The engraved county maps by Hall (of Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire and Hampshire) are unusually crisp and clean. A previous owner has encased the cloth covers in clear plastic. Lovely copy of the corrected and expanded version of the original edition of 1855. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
