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189737706Blackwood 1897. 8vo. Fourth Edition with portrait frontispiece original tissue guard present and very numerous full-page photographs in the text free endpapers browned contemporary pencilled inscription on free endpapers; original blue ribbed cloth gilt back a very good bright clean copy. Published in the same year as the first edition. Padwick 910 recording the first edition. Blackwood, hardcover
19000237London: Methuen & Co. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Some foxing throughout. 1900. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 190mm x 130mm 7" x 5". xv 439pp plates & ads. 17 b/w plates. . Methuen & Co hardcover
1850161904. 1850. Unbound. Very Good. Cricket Match - fine decorative watercolour. Mounted on contemporary paper & card with a panel space at the upper edge - maybe for a calendar month as we have had others with the month filled in. Original watercolour most probably by a member of the Waddon-Martyn family of Tonacombe Manor in the mid 19th century. Mounted on contemporary card backing sheet. c9x 7 inches image size Tonacombe is a late medieval manor house built in the early 16th century with 18th century renovations. The main building dates from the marriage of Tomasin Jourden of Tonacombe to John Kempthorne Ley. The house passed through the female line to the Waddon family in the mid 17th century and to the Martyns in the late 18th century. Tonacombe is the original of "Chapel" in 'Westward Ho !' which was partly written there and Charles Kingsley was a frequent visitor. He was born at Holne Vicarage under the brow of Dartmoor Devonshire. <br/> <br/> . unknown