Search Results: Authors starting with R from AJ Scruffles

London: Alecto Historical Editions , 1988. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition facsimile of the folios from the Great Domesday book pertaining to Wiltshire. Comprising of three volumes, the first contains a high quality reproduction of the original pages and inserted maps of Britain at the time and a large, detailed map of Wiltshire. The second volume contains introductory essays and a translation of the text with an index of names and places. The third volume features numerous studies of the book and the world it recorded, by various authors, with numerous b/w illustrations and maps. Presented in a half leather bound case that can be adapted into a display stand. Volumes are bound in quarter cream cloth. Limited to 1000 copies, of which this is 333. Folio (410x285mm) Front joint leather is split but cloth joints beneath are holding. Various marking to spine. Tiny amount of offsetting to spine of introductory volume. Otherwise volumes are crisp and clean. Very good overall. *Due to size… Read More

London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969. Hardcover. Good/Good. Lively, readable history of aviation from the earliest days of flight to the space age. With numerous b/w and colour images. Dust jacket has some foxing to edge and toning and is price clipped. Light foxing to top edge. Contents clean and tight. Good+

Oxford: Oxford At the Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. Series of essays from a variety of authors describing the influence ancient Greece in various fields including Medicine, Science, History, Art etc. With numerous b/w images. Mild shelf-wear. Contents clean and tight. Very Good.

London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909. Hardcover. Good. Arthur Rackham. First printing thus in the fetching red variant cloth covers. A new edition after the 1899 version, featuring 12 revised illustrations by Rackham now done in colour. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Elaborate gilt decoration to cover. Top edge gilt. royal octavo. [xv] 291pp. Sunning to spine and edges of cover. Mild foxing to ffep, mild tanning to page edges. Otherwise contents clean and tight. Good+

New York: Doran, Doubleday and Company, 1943. Hardcover. Good. Previous owner's name to front-pastedown and half-title. Mild sunning to spine. Contents clean and sound. Good.

Portsmouth: P. J. Radford, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. Guide to antique maps and notable figures in the field. With b/w images. Some foxing and toning to DJ with small tears to edges. Volume is clean and tight. Good.

London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1903. Hardcover. Good. Nice edition of Raleigh's biography and critical appraisal of Wordsworth. Top edge gilt, printed on thick paper, probably intended for a leather rebinding. Some light foxing. Some instances of pencil underlining. Otherwise clean and tight. Good.

San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 2001. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Tear and bump to top of spine. Mild shelf-wear. Contents crisp and clean. Fair but very good within.

London: Methuen & Co. , 1907. Hardcover. Good. Wide ranging, ambitious account of English Bells and bell-ring throughout history. With numerous b/w images including plates. Ex-library with label to front pastedown and stamps. Some toning to spine and rubbing to edges. Contents clean and sound. Good.

London: Arms & Armour/Cassel, 1996. Hardcover. Good/Good. A history and analysis of the Luftwaffe's raids against Britain's civilian population. EX-LIBRARY, withdrawn stamp but tags removed. Binding is tight, interior is clean, good to very good condition.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1929. Hardcover. Good. From the Tauchnitz collection of British and American Authors, copyright edition. No. 4904. Neatly rebound in blue cloth with leather label to spine. 12mo. We have many more similarly bound Tauchnitz editions. Previous owner's name to dedication page. Missing half title and tile. Some light wear to covers. extremely light foxing to fore-edge. Otherwise clean and tight. Good.

London: Samuel French, 1927. Soft cover. Fair. Acting edition of this one act play for Women. Soft covers. owner's/actors name on cover and notes. Used but still usable. fair/ Good.

London: H. F. W. Deane & Sons, 1958. Soft cover. Fair. Actor's edition. Owner's/Actor's notes inside. Cover has been wrapped in brown paper (?) Used but still usable. Fair condition.

London: Virtue & Co., 1884. Hardcover. Good. The fifth division of Virtue's stupendous Universal Geography, a detailed cultural, ethnological and topographical study of the Earth that was to meant to run to 24 divisions over a number of volumes between 1878 to 1894. This division contains sections on Austria, Hungary and Germany. With detailed accounts of the various regions of each country plus demographical and economic data. Complete with maps and tissue guarded engraved plates of people and places plus illustrations within the text. Green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration. All edges gilt. 4to. (280x200mm) Occasional markings to boards. Rubbing and bumping to edges, especially tops and tails of spine with light fraying. Occasional very mild spotting within, usually to reverses of plates or tissue guards. Otherwise contents clean and binding tight. Good+

London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1947. Hardcover. Good. Account of nineteenth century british art that first appeared in 1866, encompassing Hogarth to Constable. With numerous b/w plates to rear. Sunning to spine. Contents clean and tight. Good.

London: Sampson, Low, Marston & co., 1910. Hardcover. Good. Second, expanded edition. With b/w images of relevant artworks, Includes biographies and analysis of Reynolds, Constable and others. Sunning to spine. Light marking to covers. Mild spotting within. Binding sound. Good.

London: National Army Museum, 1972. Soft cover. Good. Swift account of London's volunteer soliders and exhibits in the museum, illustrated with images from the collection. Some toning to covers. Small staining to bottom edge, not affecting text. Clean and tight. Good.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. , 1904. Hardcover. Good. Pleasant quarter cloth edition of Reresby's memoirs describing his 17th century travels and his experiences, including his period of exile after the English Civil War. Fore edge uncut. Previous owner's name to ffep. Rubbing to cloth. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good.

London: A. Zwemmer, 1965. Soft cover. Good. Guide to Paris' military museums and moments of the Hotel des Invalides. Features 40 b/w images and diagrams. Soft-covers are rubbed, folded at corners with smalls splits to top and bottom of spine. Contents are prim and clean. Fair/good overall.

London: Bodley Head, 1922. Hardcover. Good. 'Being a short history of the city churches'. With 54 b/w original drawings of towers and steeples by the author. Brief but informative sketches of the London Churches describing their, sometimes ancient, roots and the current structures, Fore edge rough cut. Sunning to spine. Mild spotting to page edges. Binding sound. Good.