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8vo., with several photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, WANTING TITLE, first leaf browned; attractively bound in twentieth century half calf, marbled boards, back with five flat bands ruled in gilt, second compartment with red leather label lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, crisp copy. This copy comprises 66pp. RARE. Not recorded by Anderson.
8vo., Second and Best Edition, with 2 plates on 1 as frontispiece, 27 plates on 18 and 78 illustrations, dfiagrams and tables (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities. Published for the National Museum of Wales, this standard work was first published in 1939 as 'Guide to the Collection illustrating the Prehistory of Wales'. The aim of the present edition is to bring up to date the record and to provide a consolidated catalogue.
8vo., with plates and 4 large folding plans; printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, bright, clean copy. JAA, Third Series, Vol. XXVIII.
8vo., with a folding facsimile on japon and a facsimile title-page; faux-vellum, stained edges, covers a little age-marked, endpapers mildly browned else a very good, clean copy. Last edition recorded by Almack. The three-quarter folding plate, with Explanation at foot, was reproduced specially for this edition. Scott's text is taken from Stewart's 1879 issue [Almack, 72]. AN EDITION DOUBLY REMARKABLE FOR ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AUTHORIAL DEBATE, FOR IN ADDITION TO SCOTT'S NOTABLE PREFACE IT CONTAINS THE SLIP ANNOUNCING MARSH'S DISCOVERY (22 MARCH) OF THE HOLOGRAPH SECOND PRAYER. [In the preface itself], written in answer to Richard Garnett, Scott accepts all Wordsworth's conclusions in favour of the King. He publishes, from the Nicholas Papers in the BL, correspondence relating to the French edition of de Marsyr [Almack, 56]; and notes by the King in a copy of Bacon's Advancement of Learning, 1640, also in the BL...' (Madan). SUCH IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS ESSAY THAT ALMACK REPRINTS IT IN FULL IN HIS BIBLIOGRAPHY (pp.123-142) - IT IS THE SOLE ITEM OF SCHOLARSHIP TO BE THUS INCLUDED. The arguments of Scott and Phillimore were criticised in the Athaneum, nos. 2744 and 2746, May-June 1880. Almack, 76; Madan, 79.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and illustrations in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. The history of the South Devon ball clay industry. Bennett 62240.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text, and endpaper maps; cloth, gilt back, a mint copy in the dustwrapper. A detailed study concentrating on operational necessity and examining how national policies were adapted and carried out locally. The work covers the period from 1085 to the mid-1980s and each chapter can be read separately as a vignette of its period.
Small name label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to top edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a trace of sunning to spine. 124pp. Ansel Adams published seven Portfolios of his black & white photography of the United States between 1948 and 1976. This volume, with his words, reproduces eighty-nine of the works from these Portfolios. Introduction from John Szarkowski.
8vo., First Edition, small corner clipped from front free endpaper, short clean tear on title, endpapers lightly browned; original blue cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip sunned, frayed at head (not affecting lettering) and with short split in lower joint, a good, firm copy. SCARCE
First edition, 8vo (235 x 145 mm), viii, 87, [1]pp., orig. blind-stamped bule cloth.
8vo., First Edition, qith 18 plates on 12, 17 illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and 8 maps, small inscription erased from front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities. A splendid history, detailed, well-written and illustrated
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline in pocket at end of first volume; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt backs, backstrips sunned (but all lettering wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean set. English Place-Name Society, Vols. VI and VII. Part I: The Rapes of Chichester, Arundel and Bramber; Part II: The Rapes of Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. English Place-Name Society, vol. LV. Scarce, especially in this condition.
4to., Second Impression; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Nice copy of the definitive record.
Tiny mark to fore-edge of title page and next page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards, tanning to page edges and margins and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to edges, enclosed nick to upper rear dust flap corner and traces of storage. 526pp. A definitive and comprehensive study of the place-names of Roman Britain including their historical, linguistic and textual aspects accompanied by the sources of information. Part two of the book is an alphabetical list of 460 names in Latin form including their sources, derivation and the identification of the places in modern terms with map references plus notes of further interest.
8vo., First Edition, with 6 folding maps in pocket at end; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, small pull at headband else a very good, bright, clean copy. English Place-Name Society, vol. X
8vo., First Edition, with two large folding maps in pocket at end; cloth, gilt back, covers and backstrip sunned else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. English Place-Name Society, vol. II.
8vo., First Edition; grey cloth, gilt back, grey top, a near fine copy in price-clipped, mildly sunned and browned dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard captioned in blue), title-vignette, 7 coloured plates (all original tissue guards captioned in blue), 8 plates in half-tone and numerous line illustrations in the text, half-title spotted, some light and occasional foxing; original green cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt and blue, gilt back, gilt top, case lightly shaken else a bright copy.
8vo. First Edition with numerous illustrations and plans by the author in the text; original printed wrappers sewed as issued a remarkably good clean copy of an uncommon work. Published by the 'Kent Messenger' newspaper group this delightful place-by-place account of the route to Canterbury is now very hard to find in this state.
8vo., with numerous photographs ( a number full-page) in the text, some light age-staining to text; original printed wrappers, coloured illustration mounted on upper wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a good, clean copy. With numerous trade advertisements (many illustrated) throughout.
8vo., with numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text and a large folding street plan; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. With numerous trade advertisements throughout.
Two volumes. Octavo. Pp. xx, 415, with folding engraved map as frontispiece, engraved title-page with charming vignette, drawn and engraved by C. Marr, and 10 wood-engraved vignettes, each at the head of a chapter; (ii), 445, with engraved frontispiece "Pass in the Ghauts" by C. Marr, engraved title-page with vignette illustration, and 9 wood-engraved vignettes, each at the head of a chapter, some foxing to engraved titles due to paper quality. Hardcover, uniformly bound in the original publisher's full cloth, delicately blind embossed with floral motif, decorative lettering-piece to each spine, cloth bit discoloured, minute bump to a lower corner. Overall an attractive set in a very good condition. ~ Second edition, first published in 1830. Robert Mudie (1777-1842). In 1829 he published "The Picture of Australia" (London, Whittaker, Treacher, & Co.). The present survey of India is "intended to furnish a general sketch of the country, as well to those who are to visit it, who are in it, or have returned, as to those who merely wish for information". Beautifully illustrated.
8vo., First Edition, with 54 plates on 32 and front and rear endpaper maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A standard reference on Norwood and the Crystal Palace. THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC STUDY IS NOW SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION.
Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 325. With maps. Original stiff wrappers. In fine condition. ~ First published 1989.