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8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece, plates, and illustrations and full-page plan in the text, free endpapers lightly browned, blind stamp on front free endpaper; pale blue tweed cloth, blocked and lettered in black, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Published in the same year as the first edition. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Cordeaux & Merry 2650.
Small folio (39x28 cm). Pp. lxxvi, (ii), 43, (1) Errata. Frontispiece. Plus large folding plate bound-in. With 214 numbered typographical examples. With a description of characters "whose elements are difficult to find" with additional 40 additional examples. Numerous other text figures and typographical examples to the extended introduction. Hardcover, beautifully bound in recent black full calf, spine with raised bands between compartments, each decorated with gilt fleuron, red morocco lettering-piece in gilt to the second compartment, blind ruled sides with small corner ornaments; some foxing and spotting to title-page and bookblock edges. In fine condition. An impressive tome printed on thick paper with ample margins, untrimmed preserving the original rough edges. ~ First edition. Remarkable production. ". Whether regarded as new, curios, or splendid, it is highly entitled to attention. Its typographical excellence entitles it to no small degree of praise, whilst the beauty of the Chinese characters it exhibits, and the exquisite fabric of the paper, place it far beyond all competition with every other work of the kind: indeed, properly speaking, no work of the kind hath hitherto appeared." ~ The Critical Review, 1801.
8vo., Third Edition, with an etched frontispiece, 3 etched plates, 16 plates from photographs and a folding map coloured in outline, neat signature on front paste-down; original pictorial cloth blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the list of subscribers and publisher's advertisement leaf. A lovely copy of Page's classic account, first published in 1889 and reissued later in the same year. This is the last edition to feature the fine etched sepia-toned plates prepared by Alfred Dawson from drawings by the author. A fourth edition, with a reduced number of plates, appeared in 1895. Brockett 51330 (astonishingly, recording only the first and fourth editions); Cocks pp.26-27.
Roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous charming coloured illustrations throughout, small personal book-label on front free endpaper; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition.
8vo., First Edition, with a folding engraved map as frontispiece (lightly spotted, short tear in one fold, outer margin neatly and expertly repaired), engraved and mounted title, and 6 mounted steel-engraved plates, some light marginal foxing; strongly bound in later nineteenth century half calf, back gilt with five raised bands, morocco label gilt, red sprinkled edges, joints lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper. This copy has been bound, as is usual, without the extra plate 'Arundel Castle', not called for in the list of plates but mentioned on p.382 (see Holloway, p.111). Anderson p.277; Holloway 99.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with wood-engraved title-vignette, fine engraved armorial dedication, 6 engraved plates, folding pedigree, 11 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and several engraved head- and tail-pieces, wanting frontispiece, list of plates and folding map; contemporary boards, uncut, neatly rebacked, old calf backstrip laid down, a most attractive working or reference copy. THIS COPY IS BOUND WITHOUT THE FRONTISPIECE, LIST OF PLATES AND FOLDING MAP. The engraved illustrations are by Nesbitt of Chelsea. Anderson, p.175; Upcott, p. 600.
8vo., First Edition [Sole Edition], with a copper-engraved frontispiece and six copper-engraved plates (one folding), the majority with original tissue guards (guards worn, light foxing on guards and some plates), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper (repeated on title); ORIGINAL BOARDS, PAPER BACK LETTERED IN MS (lettering worn but entirely legible), uncut, backstrip worn at joints and with covering of fourth compartment (of five) frayed away, upper hinge cracked but just sound else a crisp, unusually clean copy of a very scarce work in well-preserved contemporary binding. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Upcott, pp.324-5; Anderson, p.127.
Third edition, 8vo, 2 folding engraved map (one with verso repairs to folds), 15 engraved plates, some light soiling, cont. calf, rubbed, neatly rebacked with orig. spine laid-down. The third and best edition with considerable additions and new engravings of the public buildings.
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers very lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy.
8vo., with photographs in the text, annotation on upper wrapper; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear. VERY SCARCE.
New edition, 8vo (210 X 140mm), [4], 99, [1], xxiv + 8pp., of adverts, 2 folding maps, woodcuts in text, archival repair to title and one map, text browned, new cloth with orig. wrapper pasted on upper cover.
8vo., First Edition, with 58 plates, title lightly spotted; original cream boards, upper board blocked and lettered in brown, backstrip letter in brown, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. The first dedicated local history of the area, published to coincide with the Festival of Britain.
8vo., Second Impression, with diagrams in the text; original printed wrappers, covers lightly dust-soiled a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in 1932. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front wrapper, and press-mark and pocket on title. SCARCE.
8vo., Second Impression, with tables in the text; strongly bound in boards, upper board with printed paper label, original printed wrappers preserved, a good, clean copy of a scarce work. First published in 1932. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front wrapper, and press-mark and pocket on title. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with tables in the text and large folding chart; strongly bound in boards, upper board with paper label, original printed wrappers (worn) preserved, a good, clean copy of a scarce work. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front wrapper, and press-mark and pocket on title. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, with tables in the text and folding coloured map; original printed wrappers, a good, clean copy of a scarce work. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front wrapper, and press-mark and pocket on title. SCARCE.
2 works in 1 vol., 8vo., on laid paper, some foxing throughout; attractively bound in nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, back with five raised bands, compartments tooled in blind to a floral design, leather label gilt, speckled edges. With an early nineteenth-century ownership inscription in ink of half-title of each work. THE SOLE EDITION OF EACH WORK. The second work contains 1. The Origin and Ceremony of Judicial Combat; 2. The Solemnities of ancient Writs; 3. The ancient and modern Use of armorial Figures; 4. The Form of Funeral Service; 5. An Account, Charge and Discharge of John Bishop of Glasgow, Treasurer to King James III, for the Year 1474
Octavo. Pp. 108. Original printed stiff wrappers, bit marked, spine-ends trifle chipped. In a very good internal condition. ~ First edition.
2 vols., folio, First and Sole Edition, with 277 reproductions of engravings and 25 head- and tail-pieces; original white buckram, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 210 COPIES.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, with many hundreds of plates and maps (many folding), and a large folding map in pocket at end; original series binding of decorative red cloth gilt extra, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned and soiled. Volumes of this splendid series were produced in two bindings, the relatively common grey cloth and the much less common red cloth (as here). This original edition is difficult to find in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Cordeaux & Merry, 291.
4to., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, very numerous plates, illustrations, sketches, diagrams and plans, a number folding, and a large folding map coloured in outline in pocket at end; original decorative cloth, a near fine copy. With a copy of the prospectus loosely inserted
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Edition, with numerous photographs in the text and 4 large folding plans loosely inserted; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean set. Much-needed reissues of the original edition of 1959.
4to., First Edition, with a fine coloured frontispiece, title in brown and black, numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and plans and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text; original series binding of red buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, red top, brown endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, 38 monochrome plates on 23, several folding maps, very numerous illustrations, maps and plans in the text, and large folding map coloured in outline in pocket at end; original series binding of grey buckram, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the whole housed in publisher's original mailing case..
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations and maps in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. Reprinted from the Archaeological Journal, Vol. CI (1944). Extremely scarce. Bonser 5006.
