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First edition, small 4to, 285pp., frontis., 66 plates and facsimiles, orig. cloth, light stain to lower corner.
First edition, small 4to, 285pp., frontis., 66 plates and facsimiles, orig. cloth.
First Edition, large 8vo, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn.
Octavo. Pp. xiii, 180. Frontispiece. Bound in the original stiff wrappers with integrated dust-jacket. In a very good condition. ~ First edition.
Octavo. Pp. xiii, 180. Frontispiece. Bound in the original stiff wrappers with integrated dust-jacket. In fine condition. ~ First edition.
5 vols., roy. 8vo., with 5 engraved frontispieces (original tissue guards present), engraved and printed titles, and 82 fine engraved portraits; strongly bound in contemporary half roan, sides in morocco-grain cloth blocked in blind, backs with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, all other compartments ruled and tooled in blind, gilt tops, red edges, marbled endpapers, boards very lightly age-marked, backstrips lightly chafed at heads and tails else a splendid bright, clean set. The set comprises: vol. I: Abercromby-Creech; vol. II: Crichton-Hamilton; vol. III: Hamilton-M'Gavin; vol. IV: Melville-Young; vol. V: Abercrombie-Wood. Lovely set of the extended version of a standard reference.
8vo., First Edition; maroon cloth, sides with black frame border enclosing title in gilt, gilt back, brown endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, LARGELY UNOPENED copy. Published for the Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society as Extra Series VII.
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original terracotta cloth blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A deceptively valuable guide, compiled principally from principal sources with the author's customary thoroughness. Scarce, especially in this condition. Brockett 15240.
4 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 4 frontispieces, very numerous plates and illustrations in the text, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in the dustwrapper (one price-clipped). Wymer's delightful sequence, covering virtually the whole of England, is neither a gazetteer nor the usual rural eulogy. Rather, he sets out to compare and contrast traditional variations between one county and another, emphasising industries, customs, superstitions, legends, folklore and, above all, people. It is an unusual approach, based on a charming prose style and enhanced by evocative illustrations both photographic and line. A lovely set, and uncommon in this condition
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, eighteenth century inscription on title, title and several following leaves age-stained, title neatly mounted without loss of text, final leaf of Appendix mounted with loss of half text; strongly and attractively bound in half calf, marbled boards, back with five flat gilt bands, second compartment with red leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy. This copy was formerly in the McIntosh Library, Dunkeld, and carries the MS press-mark A8.51 and bookplate (numbered 493) on front paste-down. A sound and complete (save last leaf) copy of the first dedicated published account of Orkney and Zetland. RARE. Anderson, p.402.
8vo., Third Thousand; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and folding plan; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece, signatures on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
6 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, uncut, backstrips frayed and a few wrappers loose (but all bindings entirely sound), a very good, clean run. The run comprises Wills and Administrations registered Part I: 1451-1642 (1899); Wills and Administrations registered Part II: 1493-1560 (1901); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part I: 1601-1614 (1907); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part II: 1614-1625 (1907); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part III: 1628-1647 (1910); Wills and Administrations preserved Vol. II Part IV (1911). ALL VOLUMES IN THIS IMPORTANT SERIES ARE EXTREMELY SCARCE.
8vo., First and Sole Edition; boards, cloth back, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Published as The Manorial Society's Publications, No.16. ANTHONY WAGNER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Sir Anthony Richard Wagner (1908-1995) was one of the longest-serving members of the College of Arms of the twentieth century, and one of the most prolific authors on heraldry and genealogy. He joined the College in 1931 as Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary (in which position he acquired and signed this copy). During the next sixty years or so he occupied most of the major offices, including Richmond Herald (1943) and Garter Principal King of Arms in 1961. In 1978 he retired to the subordinate position of Clarenceux King of Arms and concentrated on the cataloguing of his extensive professional library. Scarce. Cordeaux & Merry 7926.
2 Parts, 148; 127pp., orig. printed wrappers, spines chipped.
4to., 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.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a folding coloured frontispiece, 4 plates in monochrome and illustrations in the text; original cerise cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. Published to commemorate the firm's centenary. The frontispiece depicts 'The remarkable characters who were at Tunbridge Wells with Richardson in 1748 from a drawing in his possession'. The characters include Johnson, Tetty Johnson, Mrs. Cibber, Garrick, Mrs. Thrale, Pitt and others. Scarce. Bennett, p.352.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 29 plates on 16 and several illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good copy.
8vo., First Edition, ALL PUBLISHED, with plates; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. A second volume, Part II: 1816-1860, was projected but never published. SCARCE.
Fine/fine (no significant faults with book or dj) Large format, quarto. 122pp illustrated throughout with historic photographs and extended captions
8vo. First Edition with numerous charts and tables; blue cloth upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text; printed wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., First Edition, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; pale green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. This delightful story of childhood in the Forest of Dean has become a minor classic following its broadcast by the BBC.