[Acton, W. Stackhouse].

THE GARRISONS OF SHROPSHIRE, during the Civil War, 1642-48.

Shrewsbury: Leake and Evans, Publishers, 1867. 1st Ed. Slim 4to. [90]pp. Frontis., illus. title page, red & black lettered letterpress title page, 25 plates, several ills. Prelims. spotted, ex.-libris Robert Chambré Vaughan, blind inner ruling, full blind tooled brown morocco with gilt title to upper board, bevelled edges, some very minor rubbing to extremities, spine lightly faded, a.e.red.

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Bayley, A.R.

THE GREAT CIVIL WAR IN DORSET 1642-1660.

Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, the Wessex Press, 1910. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. xx + 493pp. + [iii] adverts. Red & black lettered title page, folding map at rear (sl. curled to fore edge), dec. initial letters. Ex.-libris Christopher Green, other ownership inscriptions, e.ps. lightly spotted, fore and lower edge uncut, edges sl. spotted intruding onto inner margins, original gilt lettered red cloth, some minor soiling, corners sl. rubbed, spine faded and sl. rubbed at head and tail.

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Bund, J.W. Willis.

THE CIVIL WAR IN WORCESTERSHIRE, 1642-1646; And the Scotch Invasion of 1651.

Birmingham: The Midland Educational Co ... London ..., 1905. 1st Ed. 267pp. + [i]. Frontis., 3 maps. Marbled e.ps., light age toning, rebound in modern red leatherette, gilt armorial device to upper board, gilt devices and gilt lettered label to spine.

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(Charles II). Airy, Osmund.

CHARLES II.

Goupil & Co., 1901. 4to. v + 282pp. Colour frontis., numerous plates and ills. Very light age toning, browning, marbled e.ps., intricate gilt dentelles, bound by Zaehnsdorf in crushed morocco, gilt armorial device to centre of boards with gilt crowns to corners and to compartments of spine, upper board and spine brown, lower board showing signs of original green colour, some discolouring, minor marking and wear, t.e.g.
¶ No. 543 of a Limited Edition of 1250 Copies.

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Church, Rev. Alfred J.

WITH THE KING AT OXFORD. A Tale of the Great Rebellion.

Seeley and Co., Limited, 1890. 5th Thousand. [xii] + 298pp. + [ii] + 16pp. publ. adverts. 16 mainly colour plates. Fore and lower edge spotted occasionally intruding internally, f.e.ps. lightly browned, large contemporary ownership inscription, original gilt lettered light blue cloth ruled and decorated in red and gilt to upper board, minor rubbing to corners and joints, head and tail of spine sl. bumped.
¶ Fiction.

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Clarendon, Edward Earl of.

THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641. Re-Edited from a Fresh Collation of the Original Ms. in the Bodleian Library with Marginal Dates and Occasional Notes by W. Dunn Macray.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1888. 6 vols. Folding facsimile document. Light marginal browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, Marlborough School prize binding in maroon calf, double gilt rule edging to boards, some marking and wear, decorative gilt compartments and gilt lettered labels to spines, sm. nick to head of spine of volume 2.
¶ With inscription to flyleaf of volume 1 ‘Ian Pendlebury Macdonald 2nd Congreve Prize Marlborough June 1908 Frank Fletcher.’ And with the bookplate of Ian P. Macdonald, and ‘In Memoriam Congreve Prize’ bookplate to end papes of each volume.

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Clarendon, Edward Earl of.

THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION AND CIVIL WARS IN ENGLAND, begun in the year 1641. With the precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed thereunto, and the happy End, and Conclusion thereof by the King's blessed restoration, and return upon the 29th of May, in the Year 1660. Written by the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon, Late Lord High Chancellor of England, Privy Counsellor in the Reigns of King Charles the First and the Second. Oxford printed at the Theater, an. Dom. 1704-3-4. 3 vols. Volume 1 Reprint of 1702 Edition, Remaining volumes First Ordinary Edition. Light diminishing browning to gutter hinge of volume 2., contemporary blind ruled and tooled speckled calf boards (except lower board to vol. 3. in plain calf), some soiling and minor loss mainly to corners, rebacked in C20th calf with gilt motifs and original gilt lettered labels. [Together with]. THE LIFE OF EDWARD EARL OF CLARENDON Oxford at the Clarendon printing-house 1759. First Ordinary Edition. Light browning, tape marks to e.ps., contemporary panelled speckled calf, some loss to corners, some surface loss to boards, rebacked with original gilt tooled spine laid down, modern gilt lettered label.

, 4 volumes in total. Folio. Port. frontiss. (offset) after Peter Lely, title page vignettes engraved by M. Burghers, numerous historiated initial letters and head and tail pieces. Lacking half titles, ex-libris John Stewart Sinclair, light age toning, occasional minor marginal loss, marbled e.ps.
¶ Volume 1 ESTC T53940. ‘Line-for-line reprint of 1702 edition. Imprimatur leaf follows tp.’ Volume 2 ESTC N9850 ‘Ordinary paper issue.’ Volume 3 ESTC T147811 ‘With an Index’. Life ESTC No N11213 ‘In two parts, each with separate pagination and register. Each part also has its own half-title; that to the second part reads: 'A continuation of the life of the Earl of Clarendon, ..'. A variant half-title has 'The continuation of the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... [as in our copy]. There are two indices to the two parts at the end of the whole work. Ordinary paper issue.’ Printing and the Mind of Man, 133. ‘The typeface is one of those commissioned by Bishop John Fell when he headed the partnership that rented the right of Oxford University to print during the years 1672-1690. It is the Great Primer roman and italic. The attractive engraved ornaments decorating the text are the work of Michael Burghers, a Dutchman who worked in Oxford and became engraver to the University.’

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Clarendon, Edward Earl of.

THE LIFE of ... Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor's Life from his Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667. Written by himself. Printed from his original manuscripts, given to the University of Oxford by the Heirs of the late Earl of Clarendon.

Oxford : at the Clarendon printing-house,, 1759. 1st Ed. 3 vols. Dec. headpieces. Misbound, i.e. Volume 3 has the text of volume 2 and Volume 2 has the text of volume 3., light browning, sporadic foxing, marbled e.ps., ex.-libris Chas Willm. Bigge, ex.-libris Charles Wm. Orde Nunnykirk, speckled calf with gilt ruled border with gilt motifs to corners, joints cracked with some loss to calf, dec. gilt compartments with crude modern gilt lettered labels, vol. 3. with vertical crack to spine, some loss to spines.
¶ ESTC T55769; ‘Vols.2 and 3 each have a titlepage reading 'The continuation of the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, ...'. Vol.1 has separate pagination; that of Vols. 2 and 3 is continuous.’

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Colomb, Colonel.

A REGICIDE’S CAREER Pseud St. Peter or The Prince of Army Chaplains.

London: Burns & Oates, Limited, N.d. c.[1899]. 1st Ed. viii + 206pp. Light marginal browning, some ink annotations, upper hinge cracked but firm, f.e.ps. browned, original gilt lettered red cloth, some soiling and sl. marking, fore edge of lower leading corners of both boards wormed?, spine lightly faded and sl. bumped at head and tail.
¶ Author’s Copy? with ‘Col Colcomb J.N.S.? Club London S.W.’ inscribed to front pastedown.

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Cotton, Richard W.

BARNSTAPLE AND THE NORTHERN PART OF DEVONSHIRE During the Great Civil War, 1642-1646.

Printed for the Author by Unwin Brothers, 1889. 1st Ed. [xvi] + 558pp. + [ii]. Double page plan. E.ps. and first few leaves lightly spotted, ownership inscription, binding very sl. cockled, original gilt lettered brown cloth, minor soiling, joints rubbed, corners and head and tail of spine bumped, spine recased? and sl. wrinkled.

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(Deane). Deane, John Bathurst.

THE LIFE OF RICHARD DEANE, Major-General and General-at-Sea in the service of The Commonwealth, and one of the Commissioners of the High Court of Justice appointed for the trial of King Charles the First.

Longmans, Green & Co., 1870. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xii + 718pp. + [iv]. Port. frontis., 4 plates, 1 folding. Frontis. and title page spotted, lower hinge tender but firm, upper hinge glued, e.ps. sl. rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription, original gilt lettered blue cloth with gilt anchor device to upper board, lightly soiled and rubbed, corners bumped with sl. wear, joints rubbed with some wear, spine darkened and worn at head and tail with some loss.
¶ From the library of Christopher Hill with his signature, marginal markings and some annotations in pencil,

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Denbigh, Cecilia Countess of.

ROYALIST FATHER AND ROUNDHEAD SON. Being the Memoirs of the First and Second Earls of Denbigh 1600-1675.

Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1915. 1st Ed. [xii] + 323pp. + [i] + 31pp. publ. adverts. + [i]. 12 plates. Light marginal browning and occasional spotting, half title lightly browned and spotted, frontis. creased to gutter margin, sm. chipp. to top edge of front pastedown, original gilt lettered blue cloth, faded to spine, head of spine bumped and sl. chipped.

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Dunlop, Robert. (Editor).

IRELAND UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH Being a Selection of Documents Relating to the Government of Ireland From 1651 to 1659. Edited, with Historical Introduction and Notes.

Manchester University Press, 1913. 1st Ed. 2 vols. clxxvi + lxxviii + 753pp. + [iii]. Ex.-Croydon Public Libraries with many sm. ink stamps throughout including to prelims, lib. label to front pastedowns, original gilt lettered green cloth with gilt accession nos. to tail of spines, minor rubbing, sl. bubbling of cloth to upper board of vol. 2, corners and head and tail of spine sl. bumped, t.e.green rest uncut.
¶ Publications of the University of Manchester, Historical Series Nos. XVII and XVIII.

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[Finch, Heneage Earl of Nottingham (Compiler).]

THE INDICTMENT, ARRAIGNMENT, TRYAL AND JUDGMENT, AT LARGE OF THE TWENY-NINE REGICIDES the murtherers of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the First, Of Glorious Memory, Begun at Hicks's-Hall on Tuesday the Ninth of October, 1660, and Continued at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey until Friday the Nineteenth of the same Month. Together with a Summary of the Dark and Horrid Decrees of those Cabbalists, Preparatory to that Hellish Fact. Expos'd to View for the Reader's Satisfaction, and Information of Posterity. To which is added, their speeches. With a Preface, giving an Account of the Rise and Progress of Enthusiasm among us, and in other Parts of Europe; with the Characters, and Answer to the Tenets of the several Persons Executed.

London printed for J. Walthoe, M. Wootton, G. Conyers, J. Nicholson, J. Sprint, D. Midwinter, T. Ballard, B. Cowse, and W. Innys., 1713. 4th Edition. [4],xxviii,312;104p. Imprimatur leaf stating J. Berkenhead 1660 present. Frontispiece portrait of king Charles I engraved by Michael van der Gucht after Van Dyck. Light dampstaining to fore-edge with resultant fraying to front and rear, pp.271-296 with sm. mainly marginal wormhole, light browning, contemporary speckled calf, sm. portion of calf lacking to lower board, minor leather loss to upper leading corner, sm. black stain to upper joint, faded gilt compartments to spine with loss to head and tail.
¶ Ex.-libris Richard Massie of Coddington Cheshire. ESTC T108291. ‘Compiled by Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham. With an initial imprimatur leaf. The speeches are separately paged. First published as 'Exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment'.’ Heneage Finch, first earl of Nottingham (1621–1682), lord chancellor. As solicitor-general he prosecuted the regicides. First published anonymously as ‘An exact and most impartial accompt of the indictment, arraignment, trial, and judgment (according to law) of twenty nine regicides ...’ in 1660.

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Godwin, Rev. G.N.

THE CIVIL WAR IN HAMPSHIRE (1642-45) And the Story of Basing House.

Southampton: Henry March Gilbert and Son/London: John and Edward Bumpus Ltd., 1904. New and Revised Ed. Royal 8vo. [xii] + 422pp. Engraved colour frontis., 7 engraved plates. Some sporadic light spotting moreso to plates, sm. closed tear to lower edge of p.101-112 visably repaired, title page lightly browned with sl. stain at head, e.ps. lightly browned, original gilt lettered maroon cloth, rubbed and sl. dampstained towards head of boards, corners bumped, extremities sl. rubbed, spine faded and sl. spotted, t.e.g. rest uncut.
¶ No. 360 of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies.

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