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8vo.,First Edition, on laid paper, with a plate and 2 fine folding facsimiles on japon, free endpapers moderately offset; original series binding of cloth blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, uncut and largely unopened, a near fine copy in original tissue dustwrapper. Oxford Historical Society, vol. XLVII. With the errata leaf relating to vol. XLV loosely inserted as issued. Includes a description of Oxford from the Hundred Rolls of 1279 (ed. Graham), Symonds' Oxford Church Notes 1643-4 (ed. Graham), Consecrations of Lincoln, Brasenose and Queen's College chapels (ed. Clark, Madan and Magrath respectively), Baskerville's account of Oxford 1683-6 (ed. Baskerville), Oxford's bill for the coronation of George IV in 1821(ed. Williams) , and 'Coaching In and Out of Oxford from 1820 to 1840' by William Bayzand writing as 'A Chip off the Old Block'. Cordeaux & Merry, 74 (Graham), 4613 (Symonds), 7496 (Clark), 6909 (Madan), 8224 (Magrath), 1114 (Williams), 446 (Bayzand).
62 pages. Features: Lothian Leylands; Roy Marshall; Setright Speeds, Bellgraphic & the rest; The story of Newbury & District; Looking after the US forces in WW2; Double deckers to Oxford, now and then; The Canterbury to Ashford; North Wales in the 'fifties; and more. Average wear. Couple of library markings. Clear tape along spine. Average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
Minor Shelfwear; Penguin Classics; 7.7 X 4.9 X 0.8 inches; 288 pages
8vo., Second Edition, with 22 plates on 18 and a double-page plan; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Revised and enlarged edition of the first edition of 1950. Cordeaux & Merry, 6966 (recording the first edition).
First edition, 4to, 182pp., 25 coloured tipped-in plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, a little rubbed and soiled but still a good copy, uncut.
Folio, First Edition, with mounted coloured frontispiece (original captioned guard present), and 25 fine coloured plates mounted in gilt frames (all original captioned guards present), free endpapers lightly browned; original pale blue boards, ivory buckram back lettered in gilt, gilt top, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, firm copy. Cordeaux & Merry 6957.
8vo., with 6 plates on 3 and 6 illustrations (2 full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a fine copy. Printing Historical Society, Publication No. 2
4 Vols., folio, x,834; [ii],924;[ ii],896; [iv],1024pp., from the library of Professor Birrell, with an attractive vignette on each title-page, later buckram, nice clean set. A monumental and influential catalogue which some thought should be the model for the new British Museum catalogue. This was rejected by Panizzi who had already embarked, and in fact was well underway with his own cataloguing project. Includes the supplementary volume published eight years later.
8vo., with 2 plates; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly browned at margins else a very good, bright, clean copy. The catalogue lists 191 items.
84 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Features: The German View of the Dieppe Raid; The Royal Air Force and the Raid on Dieppe, 19 August 1942; Dieppe - la fabrication d'un mythe; German Second World War Art in the Collection of the Canadian War Museum; The Canadian Home Front in the First and Second World Wars - The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History; Dieppe From the Other Side - German Newspaper Accounts of the Raid; C.P. Stacey and the Use of Oral Testimony in the Dieppe Narratives; A Journey to Dieppe to Discover Jimmie Burnett; and more. Above-average wear. Ink stamp to first page. A worty reference copy. Magazine
84 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Features: The Canadian Corps' Long March - Logistics, Discipline, and the Occupation of the Rhineland; The Inquiry into the Black Watch and the Battle of St. Andre-sur-Orne, 1944-46; Kurty Meyer - Villain and Monster, Hero and Victim or worse - a German?; The First World War and the Curious Case of Berlin, Ontario, Canada;; Malak Karsh's portrait photographs of Second World War Canadian War Artists; The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History; Canada's East Coast Forts; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop page 1. A sound copy. Book
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispieces, titles in sepia and black, several plates and illustrations in the text, small neat signature on front free endpapers, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original series binding of brown cloth, gilt back, gilt tops, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly dust-soiled dustwrapper.
pp. ix, 133 + Plus Frontis and numerous full page drawings by Muirhead Bone. Text illustrations. Bookseller's label. Endpapers foxed. Text clean. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Original dust jacket, worn. Hardbound. Second printing. TRAVEL/7
Creasing and some edgewear to wraps. Pages tanned. Minor pencilling. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Penguin Classics; 7.7 X 5.2 X 0.8 inches; 272 pages
Minor Creasing. Pages tanned. Minor pencilling. Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Penguin Classics; 7.0 X 4.3 X 0.9 inches; 368 pages
8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece and 22 plates; cloth, gilt back, covers just a little faded else a very good, clean copy. The work appeared originally in 1920, with another edition in 1929.
8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece and 22 plates, neat signature on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, covers very slightly faded else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter defective at head of backstrip and lightly frayed at edges.
Creasing and tears to spine. Fraying to spine ends. Scholar's name to ffep (Alan E. Samuel) and additional name (Edward Fitch). Front inner hinge weakening. Light ink marginalia on a few pages. ; Greek Text with Latin apparatus and introduction. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); 170 pages
16 pages. Features: Eddie Thomas cover photo; "Is Board's Power of Control Waning?"; Charlie Tucker photo; "Tot" Glanville photo; Photos of L. Radley of Oxford House Boxing Club; Photo of Charlie Collett, the Hemel Hempstead heavyweight; Photos of Charlie Solinas and Max Brady of Lurgan; Pritchard's Pile-Driver Stopped Jem Smith - article with photos of Jem Smith and Peter Jackson; Photos of Lavern Roach and Chris Jenkins, the Stourbridge lightweight; Photos of Eddie Thomas, Henry Hall and C.S.M. Inst. J. Ryan (Army Champion; Photo of Bos Murphy fighting Vince Hawkins; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
186p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
A very small number of classified section listings highlighted with a tick or pale blue. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 115pp. This issue includes Frank Richards and 'Billy Bunter', Oxford University Press World's Classics, Rose Macaulay, the importance of dust-jackets, Kay Nielsen's illustrated books and Aldous Huxley fiction.
First edition, folio (435 x 275 mm), 12pp., engraved portrait frontispiece of Gibbs by Hogarth, one further engraved portrait of Johannes Radcliffe, 21 engraved plates, a very good ex-library copy, frontis., portrait with repairs to corners, water-stain to fore-edge slightly encroaching into image, title a little dusty and creased, with repairs to corners, plates with light damp-stain to outer blank corners, last plate a little more so with a couple of minor closed tears, endpapers renewed, several blind-stamps, later brown buckram, uncut. The Radcliffe Library, better known as the Radcliffe Camera, designed by James Gibbs in neo-classical style and built in 1737-1749 to house the Radcliffe Science Library, has been described as `England's most accomplished domed building and Gibbs's masterpiece' (Pevsner). Gibbs's account of it names the more important craftsmen employed - the masons were Townsend of Oxford and Smith of Warwick, Artari did the plasterwork and Rysbrack the sculpture - and the plates show elevations, sections and interior details. Harris, 256; RIBA, Early Printed Books, II: 1205; Fowler, 139.
