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112 pages. Numerous photographs. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine and small gilt outline of lion on front cover. Dust jacket has small tear on lower front edge and smaller loss next to top of spine, wear to top/tail of spine and edges. Book has fading to edges covers.
4to., with title-vignette, 24 plates, and full-page photograph and 2 full-page plans in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. This edition was entirely rewritten to incorporate new information that came to light during restoration of the house between 1934-1936.
No marks or inscriptions. Very slight creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Local history of Croydon including transport, railway station, police station, Taberner House gardens and Town Hall. Well illustrated with photographs and drawings.
Raffigurazione della sfilata delle Guardie, dinanzi a Buckingham Palace
8 vols., 8vo., First Edition with numerous illustrations, diagrams and maps throughout; strongly and uniformly bound in blue cloth, gilt backs, all in very good, bright, state.
pp. 356 + Plus frontis and full page plates. XLib. 8vo. Original full black cloth binding, spine torn. Very worn and XLib copy. MED 2
Wear to cover and light stain to last few pages. Age-toned paper. Previous owner's name inside. 244 pages.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and illustrations and maps in the text; original series binding of grey cloth boards, brown cloth back lettered in black, a near fine copy. LTS Publication No.117.
8vo., with several photographs (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy.
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured plates and endpaper pedigrees; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and red, gilt back, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case
4to., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, and numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1979. Ottley, 12310.
4to., First Edition, with 8 coloured plates and 19 monochrome illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at backstrip. Published in Collins' well-known 'Britain in Pictures' series. Carney 115.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned pages. 186 pages.
Fuller Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS From this World to That Which is to Come. With an Introduction by the Rev. H.R. Haweis. Embellished with Over One Hundred and Twenty Designs done by Three Brothers: George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Rhead, Louis Rhead. 184 pages. Each text page is framed in a highly decorative border. Many powerful full page illustrations, and numerous smaller text illustrations. Original pictorial full pictorial cloth binding; soiled and dust spotted, but still nice. Folio. 335 mm. Hardbound. Very good. A high point from the Golden Age of English Book Illustration this is a collaboration of three distinguished brother artists: George Wooliscroft Rhead, Jr (1855-1920) who was a talented pottery painter, etcher, illustrator and art teacher; Louis John Rhead (1857-1926) who was also a talented illustrator. He gained distinction as a poster designer. In 1883 he became Art Director for D. Appleton's Publishing House in New York City; and Frederick Alfred Rhead (1856-1933) spent his working life as an artist and designer for various potteries. The bold Art Nouveau illustrations and designs, along with the charming illustrations, make this work one of the most desirable trade books of the era. SCARCE. W44
Fine pbk. (Pitkin Pride of Britain Books). 20554. eng
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.
Together 8 items,. 1 vol. 8vo., with 7 separate large folding plans; volume wire-stitched as issued, the whole housed in publisher's printed card portfolio with ties, a near fine copy. LTS Publication No. 171. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
409 pages. eng
Roy. 8vo., on laid paper, with a frontispiece and 31 plates; original buckram gilt, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate, neat stamp on obverse of frontispiece and title, and neat stamp on margins only of some plates.
Roy. 8vo. on laid paper with a frontispiece and 31 plates; original green buckram upper board lettered in black gilt back a near fine copy. Nice copy of a standard reference
116 pages. Includes auction results sheet. 203 lots. "This collection is a reflection of his singular absorption in ornithology. His aim was always to acquire where possible the best available copies of everything and in particular he regards his copies of Gould's The Birds of Australia, with the rare cancelled plates, and A Monograph of the Trochilidai, or Family of Humming-Birds as 'the finest copies you will find." - from page 6. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Book
Pages 97-192 pages. Features: Index of the tax assessment rolls, Hope Township, 1802-1808; Marriage Records of the Gore District (continued); Legal Notices from the Ontario Gazette 1871; Marriage Register of the Bathurst District; Baptismal Records of St. Marks Anglican Church, Niagara, 1837-1840; Marriage Records of the Huron District (concluded); Death Records of Victoria County 1871; Marriage Register of the Johnstown District; Missing Persons Notices from the Church; Marriage Notices from the Christian Guardian 1858 (continued); Marriage Records of the London District (continued); Inscriptions from St. Andrew's Churchyard, Vernonville, Haldimand Township, Northumberland County; Marriage Record of the Ottawa District (continued); Marriage Record of the Victoria District (Hastings County) (continued); Marriage Register of the Prince Edward District (continued). Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
2 vols. 8vo. Second Edition with title-vignettes; attractively bound in contemporary half calf marbled boards backs with flat bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments with black leather labels framed and lettered in gilt all other compartments t Published in the same year as the first edition
Light rubbing to bottom spine; 8vo; 116 pages
