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Aberystwyth: S. V. Galloway, 1911. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 15 x 19 Cm. Very scarce; 286 pages plus 56 pages of adverts, adverts to end papers; illustrated in b/w including photographs of the good and the great of the National Union of Teachers and of Aberystwyth. Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering, very good and bright with light wear only. Contents clean and tight, head of first contents page excised, presumably removing previous owner's signature, with associated loss of a few lines, otherwise unmarked, pages clean and crisp. A very good copy..

London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1883. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 309 plus publisher's adverts. B/w portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous other b/w illustrations. Original brown cloth binding with spine label, gilt lettering, blind stamped decoration, very good and bright with a little general wear only, cloth very slightly frayed to head of spine, spine label slightly chipped to edges. Contents clean and tight, minimal spotting. A very good tight copy..

Oxford: Dugdale Society, 1938. Book. Fine. Paperback. Sm 4to. DUGDALE SOCIETY OCCASIONAL PAPERS No 5. An address delivered to the Dugdale Society in the Court House, Warwick, on Saturday, 2 October, 1937. Original card covers in fine condition. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy..

London: Hudson and Nicholson, 1832. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Sold by Whitaker, Teacher and Arnott. pp. 270 frontispiece, titlepage, tri-fold map, a few illustrations within text. Original cloth binding worn to the top and base of the spine, corners rounded, spine faded and rubbed. Contents good and tight, original endpapers unmarked, frontispiece plate stained (see image), otherwise clean, no inscriptions or foxing, A very good copy of this early edition..

London: Milner and Sowerby, 1860. Book. Good. Hardcover. A New Edition. 12mo. pp viii 246, frontispiece present. Decorative Victorian binding of red cloth with blind stamped decroation to rear board and extensive gilt to the spine and vignette to the front board, faded on the rear board, spine and a little to front board, clean. Contents clean and tight, all edges gilt, original endpapers, clean, just a little marking to the title page, text within clean. A good copy..

Wincanton, Somerset, United Kingdom: Dorset Publishing Co, 1988. Book. Very Good. Card Covers. 8vo. A very good copy signed and dedicated by the author on the Title Page..

Kent: Spellmount, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. contents clean and tight, many b/w photos, a fine copy in a fine dust jacket..

London: Kirkwood & Son, Parliament Square and R. Ackermann, Strand, London, 1817. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo (approx. 14 x 21cm). Title continues: "Embellished with nearly fourteen hundred crests, Engraved by Robert Kirkwood, from original drawings by G. Sanders and J. Grant" Separate title pages to both volumes pp. xxxvi, 316, 114 plates. Full polished calf binding poor, front board missing, rear board detached, leather chipped with loss to head of spine. Contents good and tight, title page to vol. I. stained to inner margin, as are most pages of the preliminaries. Text good with some general reading wear. Plates good, some general dust soiling/reading wear with associated finger marks, especially to fore-edges, plates 53, 54 & 113 are contemporary hand-drawn facsimiles (or at least near -contemporary), plate 54 torn but complete, some water-staining/paper discoloration to the last fifteen plates or so, a little pencil annotation. This title would appear to be very scarce -… Read More

London: John Harris, 1832. Book. Very Good. Quarter Leather. First Edition. 12mo. pp. iv, 261 + publisher's adverts."With Thirty-Four Engravings representing the sovereigns in their proper costume and Six Engravings on Steel". Original publisher's quarter dark maroon calf binding with green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Binding very good with a slight general wear only and a litlle rubbing. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, minimal foxing. A very good copy. A volume in the "Little Library" series..

London: The Historical Association, 1973. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo. pp. 40. Original card covers very good with minimal wear. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Historical Association General Series Pamphlet Number 82..

London: Academic Press Inc, 1988. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. From the personal library of William Stearn, signed to the top of the front free endpaper. 242 pages. b/w illustrations throughout. Original dust jacket fine, not price-clipped. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, no marking. An interesting provenance. [Prof. William Stearn "doyen of British botanists" who wrote c. 500 papers and books, including the classic "Botanical Latin". He was an authority on Linnaeus and an expert on botanical illustration.].

London, United Kingdom: Constable and Robinson, 2003. Book. As New. Paperback. 8vo. 464 pages, b/w illustrations. Covers fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy - virtually as new..

London: Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III. in Pursuance of an Address of The House of Commons of Great Britain, 1821. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio (29 x 46cm). pp. [iv] + 511. Contemporary paper-covered boards (detached) with paper covering to spine chipped. Contents clean and tight, single stamp (MOD Library Services Withdrawn from Stock) otherwise contents unmarked. A good clean copy ideally in need of rebinding..

London: The Historical Association, 1972. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo. pp. 32. Original card covers very good with minimal wear. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Historical Association General Series Pamphlet Number 80..

London: The Historical Association, 1965. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 8vo. pp. 32. Original card covers very good with minimal wear. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A very good copy. Historical Association General Series Pamphlet Number 61..

Ledbury: Published by the Author., 1956. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Small Folio. Limited to 120 copies. Signed by Dorothea Farquharson to the introduction. Pp. iii,135. "This thesis was offered and accepted by the University of Wales in 1907 for the M. A. degree in History, Some of the chapters were published in 'History' the quarterly review, in 1914: but this is the first time that the volume has appeared as a whole. It was written before marriage under the name of Dorothea Thimbleby Price. March,1956. Le Play House. Ledbury.' A little gentle wear, the covers somewhat marked, contents clean and tight. A very good copy..

Ledbury: Published by the Author., 1956. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. Small Folio. Limited to 120 copies. Pp. iii,135. "This thesis was offered and accepted by the University of Wales in 1907 for the M. A. degree in History, Some of the chapters were published in 'History' the quarterly review, in 1914: but this is the first time that the volume has appeared as a whole. It was written before marriage under the name of Dorothea Thimbleby Price. March,1956. Le Play House. Ledbury.' This particular copy was to be presented to library of Manchester University but in the even it seems it was never sent it is number 103 of 120 copies. A little gentle wear, contents clean and tight. A very good copy..

8 Catherine St., Strand, London.: Tinsley Brothers, 1875. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo (12.5 X 18.5cm). A very good copy of the first edition of 1875; pp. xvi, 328. Contemporary half dark green polished calf binding with red marbled boards, matching marbled end papers and marbled edges. Burgundy spine labels to the spine. Binding good and strong with a little general wear and some rubbing, very slightly chipped to the head of the spine. Contents good and tight, a little foxing to first and last few pages otherwise unmarked, contemporary owner's signature to the head of the title page. A very good first edition copy. The introduction starts 'There are probably few persons who do not number among the most pleasant recollections of their youth their first visit to a circus whether their earliest sniff of the saw-dust was inhaled in the building made classical by Ducrow, or under the canvas canopy of Samwell or Clarke. In my boyish days, the cry of This way for the riders!… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st. 8vo. 256 pp, b/w frontis & other plts. Binding in very good condition with minimal wear, spine Not faded, contents clean and tight, a really very good copy..

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 358 pages. Original dust jacket fine with minimal wear, slight rubbing to the edges, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard back binding fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions, no foxing, paper a little toned. A fine copy..