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Gutes Ex.; der farb. illustr. Einband stw. berieben; Seiten minimal nachgedunkelt. - Englisch. - INHALT : Plates ---- Maps and Tables ---- Acknowledgements to Illustrations ---- Abbreviations ---- Note on Spelling ---- INTRODUCTION ---- The Face of Britain ---- The Evidence ---- 1547-1603: An Overview ---- THE RULE OF PROTECTOR SOMERSET ---- The Henrician Inheritance ---- Somerset and Government ---- Scotland ---- Religion ---- Social and Agrarian Policy ---- 1549: Riot and Revolt ---- The Fall of Somerset ---- THE RULE OF NORTHUMBERLAND ---- The Achievement of Power ---- Government and Policy under Northumberland ---- Religious Change ---- Ireland ---- The Succession Crisis ---- THE REIGN OF MARY TUDOR ---- The Installation of the Regime ---- Wyatt's Rebellion and its Aftermath ---- The Spanish Marriage and the Return to Rome ---- Persecution and War, 1555-1558 ---- Marian Ireland ---- Marian Religion ---- Marian Politics ---- THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT ---- The Royal Court ---- The Privy Council ---- Parliament ---- The Executive Machine ---- Financial Institutions ---- The Lawcourts ---- Local Government ---- The Royal Servants ---- ENGLISH SOCIETY ---- Prices ---- London ---- Provincial Towns ---- Rural Society ---- Domestic Houses and Palaces ---- Difficulties in Governing Town and Country ---- THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ELIZABETHAN RULE, ---- 1558-1572 ---- Accession and Settlement, 1558-1563- ---- The Years of Peace, 1564-1568 ---- The Crisis Years, 1568-1572 ---- Ireland, 1558-1572 ---- THE ROAD TO WAR, 1573-1588 ---- France and the Netherlands, 1573-1578 ---- The Anjou Match and the Netherlands, 1578-1582 ---- Ireland, 1573-1588: Colonization and Rebellion ---- Assassination Plots and the Spanish Threat, 1583-1585 ---- War and the Armada, 1585-1588 - (u.v.v.a.) ISBN 0192880446
xxii, [8], 148 pp. Many black and white diagrams and reproductions of archival photos. At time of publication the author's family was the only American builder of authentic wooden highway covered bridges. "Anyone who almost single handedly has repaired, rebuilt and even completely constructed twenty-two covered bridges deserves a marble pedestal in the antiquarian Hall of Fame. This has been the accomplishment of Milton Graton. The bridges described in this volume round out a significant and colorful contribution to the preservation of the New England heritage." - Foreword. Bit of writing on front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate wear to colorful dust jacket now preserved in mylar. A quality copy of this excellent history. Book
19x13. 600p. Enc. Tela ed. La sobrecubierta algo deteriorada.
Front board and first few pages hanging by a thread. Light foxing throughout. Occasional drawing and underlining. Bookplate to front pastedown. Wear to extremities; A look at 15th century England ; 8vo; 227 pages
pp. 13, 359 + Mezzotint portrait frontis by J. Faber Junior, after H. Hawkins. Portrait soiled and worn at bottom edge. Mezzotints of this era are scarce. Nice head and tail pieces, and decorative initials. Folio. 320 mm. Modern plain full black leather binding. Hardbound. Very good. Thomas Newcomb (1681/2-1765), poet, was born in Shropshire. At Corpus Christi College he met the poet Edward Young, his most significant literary associate. Newcomb took the degree of BA in 1704 and became chaplain to Charles Lennox, first duke of Richmond. He was rector of Stopham in Sussex from 1705 to at least 1723. He was also rector of nearby Barlavington from 1707 until his death. He began his literary career in 1709 with An Epistle from the Duke of Burgundy to the French King, a panegyric on Marlborough, returning to the theme with Pacata Britannia (1713), on the treaty of Utrecht. His satiric voice was established with Bibliotheca: a Poem. Occasion'd by the Sight of a Modern Library (1712), along lines suggested by Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books; it contains virulent attacks on many modern writers, especially Daniel Defoe and Richard Bentley, a panegyric on Richard Steele, and a vision of the goddess Oblivion, whose resemblance to Alexander Pope's Dulness was noted by John Nichols and Joseph Warton. In 1723 Newcomb published, by subscription, this Miltonic epic. It was dedicated to the Earl of March, who succeeded that year to the title of Duke of Richmond. Scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
Reliure percaline de l'éditeur. 463 pages.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with faint indenting to both front and rear and nick to top of spine. 168pp. A topographical, geographic and geological account of the old kingdom of Wessex covering major parts of southern England.
VG hbk in grey cloth with a picture of Lorna Doone from a painting by C.E. Brock on the front board. Illustrations by Catharine Weed Ward. 17179 eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn or creased with slight traces of handling. 95pp. Beginning with how the Lake District landscape was created, this book tells the story of the factors which have made the Lake District and its towns and countryside what they are now.
VG pbk. ISBN 096198620. 22577. eng
Slight wear to price clipped DJ; Even for those who know the Lake District well, this book provides a readable and knowledgable guide to the region; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 360 pages
19x14. 112p. Fotogr. Ilstr.
Written at the time of the King's Jubilee celebrations in 1935 "This book is not a biography of King George, but an attempt to provide a picture and some slight interpretation of his reign, with the Throne as the continuing thing through an epoch of unprecedented change." John Buchan (who was also enobled as Lord Tweedsmuir and became Goveronor General of Canada in 1935). An exceptionally clean, tight,crisp copy of the first printing, April 1935 , in a handsome cream cloth cover with gilt titles etc.It was well protected by the original price clipped dj (now slightly age toned) 285p. col. frontispiece +50 pages of photographs.index. Book
19x13. 298p. Enc. Tela ed.
8vo., Tenth Impression, with a frontispiece and very numerous sepia-toned plates; cloth, upper board and backstrip letterd in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1936 and very uncommon in this condition. Bennett, p.212.
8vo., First Edition thus, with 39 plates on 24 and 2 full-page maps in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Considerably revised and updated version of Mee's original edition of 1937.
8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and a double-page map, neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and double-page map, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised, updated and reset version of the original edition of 1937.
8vo., Fourth Impression, with a frontispiece, numerous plates all toned in sepia, and rear endpaper map, free endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1937.
8vo., Second Edition, with very numerous plates; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. Mee's first edition was published in 1940 and reached its sixth impression in 1959. This new, heavily revised and updated edition is augmented by entirely new photographs. Darroch & Taylor 588.
8vo., Revised Edition, with very numerous plates and a double-page map, neat inscription on front free endpaper; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Second Edition, with numerous plates; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly browned at edges. Bennett, p.212 (recording the original edition of 1936)
8vo., First Edition, with numerous sepia-toned plates, many line illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and endpaper maps, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, fore-edges lightly mottled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at heads of backstrip. One of the original twenty-six volumes in this famous series. The first edition is uncommon in this condition.
8vo., with very numerous photographs and a double-page map in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous photographs and double-poaghe map in the text; original series binding of navy cloth, gilt back, blue top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. First published in 1940. Bennett, p.212 (recording the first edition).