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Sm. 4to., with folding map as frontispiece, and numerous plates and plans; printed wrappers, coves very lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. With very numerous trade advertisements at front and rear. Cordeaux & Merry 250; Upcott, p.243 (recording the first edition of 1874).
Folio, First Edition, with very numerous photographs throughout; orange cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Pages tanned. Minor shelfwear. ; 7.6 X 5.0 X 0.8 inches; 336 pages
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 16 coloured plates and 8 plates in monochrome, free endpapers lightly spotted; original series binding of pictorial boards, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped with tiny loss at head and tail of backstrip. King Penguin 69
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. Well-written and illustrated account of the author's childhood and adolescence in Oxfordshire and Scotland during the 20s and 30s. Scarce, especially in this condition.
" 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times!' ... the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror" Facsimile of the 1910 volume in the Oxford World Classics Series. Introduction by Mrs F. S. Boas [ Henrietta O'Brien Boas] India paper small format edition.xxiv.466p. illus. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Includes select bibliography.
8vo., on laid paper, endpapers lightly marked; buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper.
Second Edition, half-title, viii, 187, [1]pp., some light damp-staining of the inner margins of the first few leaves, original wrappers, uncut. The Edinburgh Review had published an attack on the Oxford system of education, "to which Copleston at once replied and completely demolished his antagonist, whom he convicted not only of stark ignorance of what he had undertaken to condemn, but of much bad Latin besides." - DNB.
Sm. 8vo., Third Edition, with plates, and maps and plans (a number folding), small annotations on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, covers and backstrip printed in black, radial corners, covers sunned else a bright, clean copy. With front and rear endpaper trade advertisements. Tipped-in is the publisher's printed disclaimer slip 'owing to the Control of Maps Order we have removed from this Guide all maps and plans likely to be useful to the enemy'. The COM Order 1940 banned commercial publication of maps and plans on a scale greater than one inch to one mile and therefore of likely use to the enemy. In this edition the omissions include the plan of Oxford City normally placed as frontispiece.
Two volumes. pp. (xx) 598; (16) 676 + Illustrations, including color frontis pieces and sixty-four monochrome plates. Foxed. Original blue cloth binding, worn and torn at hinges. Methodism in the Christian tradition, chronicling its growth (especially in the U.S.) from modest beginnings. PA 51.
x p., 1 l., 330 p., 1 l. col. front., plates (part. col.) 23 cm. Hardcover Very good condition, short gift inscription on flyleaf good Contents: London and the home counties: William Blake. Charles Lamb. Keats. Meredith.--The Thames: Shelley. Matthew Arnold. William Morris.--The Downs and the South Coast: John Aubrey. Gilbert White. William Corbet. William Hazlitt. Richard Jefferies. Thomas Hardy. Hilaire Belloc.-- The West country: Herrick. Coleridge. W.H. Hudson.--The East Coast and Midlands: Cowper. George Crabbe. John Clare. Fitzgerald. George Borrow. Tennyson. Swinburne.--The North: Wordsworth. Emily Brontë.--Scotland: Burns. Scott. R.L. Stevenson.--Index.
Sm. 4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a near fine copy.
Mm 195x280 Volume in tela editoriale, titolo in oro impresso al dorso, 400 pagine. illustrazioni nel testo e una ripiegata. Nuova edizione aggiornata. Testo in lingua inglese. Ottimo stato. Spedizione entro 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Phaidon, Oxford, 1986. Petit in-4, cartonnage et jaquette illustrée de l'éditeur, 256 pp. With 250 illustrations, 80 in color. Introduction - 1. Books for Missionaries - 2. Books for Emperors - 3. Books for Monks - 4. Books for Students - 5. Books for Aristocrats - 6. Books for everybody - 7. Books for Priests - 8. Books for Collectors. Bibliogrphy. Index of Manuscripts. Géneral index.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 5 plates and a full-page map in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Much-needed high quality facsimile re-issue of the extremely scarce original edition of 1896. Cordeaux & Merry, 2843.
319 pages. Follows up on 'A Cornish Childhood'. A vivid and veracious account of a brilliant Oxford undergraduate generation in the 1920s, along with an evocation of life in a Cornish working-class home, with its background of hills and moors and sea... Portrays the early stages in the development of a remarkable and individual writer." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
8vo., First and Sole Edition; boards, cloth back, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy. Published as The Manorial Society's Publications, No.16. ANTHONY WAGNER'S COPY WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Sir Anthony Richard Wagner (1908-1995) was one of the longest-serving members of the College of Arms of the twentieth century, and one of the most prolific authors on heraldry and genealogy. He joined the College in 1931 as Portcullis Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary (in which position he acquired and signed this copy). During the next sixty years or so he occupied most of the major offices, including Richmond Herald (1943) and Garter Principal King of Arms in 1961. In 1978 he retired to the subordinate position of Clarenceux King of Arms and concentrated on the cataloguing of his extensive professional library. Scarce. Cordeaux & Merry 7926.
Folio, drop-head title, docket title, 8pp., disbound. The houses and ground were in the Parish of St. Mary the Virgin, in the City of Oxford, in trust for the use of the Church and poor of the parish. The property was bounded by the east side of Cat Street, and included the Parish Orchard which was bounded by a stone wall, extending from the garden of the warden of New College on the east and from the garden of the principal of Hart Hall on the west. The L and O copies only in the ESTC.
First edition, xxvii, 809pp., orig. cloth, d.w. a little soiled. This is an enumerative bibliography classified under some 500 headings. It embraces all aspects of University and College life and institutions and comprises more than 10,000 entries.
2 Vols., xiv, [2], 411; xxvii, 289pp., orig. cloth.
4to., First Edition, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, uncut and largely unopened, covers a little dust-soiled else a near fine copy. Oxford Bibliographical Society, Proceedings & Papers, Vol. V Part I.
Minor shelfwear to book. Former owner's name in pencil to ffep. DJ spine browned. DJ is price-clipped. ; Praefatio dated 1905. Latin Text with Latin Apparatus. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis); 80 pages
Endpapers browned. Scholar's name to ffep (R. E. Fantham née Crosthwaite). Minor shelfwear and rubbing to boards. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis)
Endpapers browned. Former owner's name on ffep. Minor fraying to top of spine. ; Latin Text with Latin Apparatus. ; Oxford Classical Texts Oct (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis)
