Collingwood, W.G.

THE LAKE COUNTIES. With Special Articles on Birds, Butterflies and Moths, Flora, Geology, Fox-Hunting, Mountaineering, Yachting, Motor-Boating, Fishing, Shooting, and Cycling and including a full Gazetteer and Map.

Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1932. New Ed. Royal 8vo. [xvi] + 368pp. 16 colour plates, 72 line ills. and folding map by A. Reginald Smith. E.ps. sl. browned and spotting, original gilt lettered light brown cloth, very minor rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine, t.e.brown.

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Collins, Captain Greenville.

GREAT-BRITAIN’S COASTING PILOT. In Two Parts. Being a New and Exact Survey of the Sea-Coast of England and Scotland From the River of Thames to the Westward and Northward, With the Islands of Scilly, And from thence to Carlisle. Likewise the Islands of Orkney and Shetland. Describing All the Harbours, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Rocks, Sands, Buoys, Beacons, SeaMarks ... With Directions for Coming into the Channel between England and France.

The Sudbrook Press Prestwood Buckinghamshire ..., N.d. c.[1964]. Reduced Facsimile Reprint of the Mount and Page 1753 Ed. Folio. [vi] + 26pp. 47 charts including many double page and several folding. Light spotting moreseo to e.ps., ex.-libris Andrew David Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy, original simulated leather boards, crudely repaired d/w. chipped with loss and splits to folds.
¶ The first collected edition was published in 1693, the first complete pilot book on English the British coasts.

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Collins, William.

HISTORICAL LANDMARKS OF HEREFORD. (Copiously Illustrated).

Hereford: Jakeman and Carver, 1915. 1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xii + 131pp. + [i]. 56 ills., photos. etc., ground plan of Castle and map of Hereford. Very light marginal browning, some sporadic spotting, Blue cloth lettered in gilt to upper board, bevelled edges, upper board dampspotted, spine lightly browned and sl. bumped at head and tail.

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Collyer, Rev. Robert and Turner, J. Horsfall.

ILKLEY: ANCIENT & MODERN. With Chapters on Its Geology by J.W. Davis; Botany by F. Arnold Lees; Fauna by W. Eagle Clarke et al; Prehistoric Remains by Several Authors.

Otley Wm. Walker & Sons ..., 1885. 1st Ed. 282pp. + [i] + xcvi + [ii]. 80 ills. including colour plates of armorial shields. Some light browning, edges foxed, modern e.ps. and first and last leaves affixed along gutter hinge, ex.-libris Peter J.L. Hunter, original bright gilt and blind green cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, t.e.g.

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Combe, William.

THE FIRST SECOND [AND] THIRD TOUR[S] OF DR SYNTAX In Search of the Picturesque; In Search of Consolation; In Search of a Wife; A Poem.

George Routledge and Sons, N.d. c.[1880]. Reprint of 9th Ed With New Plates. 272pp. In all 3 vols. 80 hand cold. plates by Rowlandson including frontiss. and additional t.ps. Very light marginal browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt rule edged half morocco with marbled boards, gilt ruled raised bands with gilt ruled compartments and gilt lettering to spines, t.e.g., handsome set.
¶ ODNB ‘... Combining light-hearted satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes' Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Parson Adams, Combe created a lovable eccentric whose misadventures on the road structure the Tour. For over a century the many editions and numerous imitations of the Tour attested to the popularity of Combe's humorous hero ...’

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Cooke, W.B. and Cooke, George.

VIEWS ON THE THAMES; Engraved by ... London ... W.B. Cooke 1822. Folio. [iv] + 75 engraved plates (including additional engraved title page). Light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary half morocco with marbled boards, some surface wear, rebacked with original gilt lettered spine laid down, corners reinforced, sl. rubbed. [Together with]. DESCRIPTIONS TO THE PLATES OF THAMES SCENERY. Engraved by W.B. Cooke & G. Cooke From Original Drawings by Eminent Artists. London ... John Murray .... and W.B. Cooke ... 1818. 8vo. 7pp. Adverts. to rear [see note]. Additional engraved title page (sl. foxed). Light browning, contemporary marbled boards with morocco corners, rebacked in modern gilt lettered morocco, minor wear, sl. rubbed.

, Together 2 vols.
¶ Text volume with the bookplate of Birket Foster. 7pp. advertisement for ‘Views in London and its Vicinity inserted to rear of volume. Addressed to verso ‘Mr Pickering’. The text volume has a letter tipped into the rear ‘Dear Sir I shall be much obliged if you will place this concluding in the way of being noted in the gent mag for the sake of the widow & family. You may remember poor George Cooke died suddenly in consequence of taking cold when going from an artists conversazione to his own house at Barry in the evening, leaving a large family, respy Tho. Huntsman for Longmans & Co.’

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Cooper, A. Heaton.

THE ENGLISH LAKES Painted by ... Described by Wm. T. Palmer.

A & C Black, 1908. 2nd Ed. [x] + 230pp. 75 cold. plates, map. Edges of leaves sl. spotted, some very occasional light spotting internally, f.e.ps. very lightly browned, tail of hinges sl. tender but firm, sl. shaken, original gilt lettered dec. pale blue cloth, some light soiling and rubbing, spine very sl. darkened and sl. bumped at head and tail, t.e.g.
¶ 20 Shilling Series. Inman 2.

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Cooper, A. Heaton.

THE ENGLISH LAKES. Described by Wm. T. Palmer.

A & C Black, 1908. 2nd Ed. ix + 230pp. + 8pp. publ. adverts. 75 colour plates, map. Neat inscription from ‘Mr and Mrs A.T. Saul Carlisle January 1921’, light age toning, original grey cloth decorated in green and orange, gilt lettered bumped spine.
¶ 20 Shillings Series. Inman 25, 3000 Copies.

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Cooper, W. Heaton.

THE TARNS OF LAKELAND Foreword by Lord Hunt.

Heaton Cooper Studio Grasmere, Westmorland, 1970. 2nd Ed. Sm. 4to. xiv + 237pp. 16 colour plates, 87 ills., e.p. map. Lengthy inscription to half title, sl. chipped and dulled d/w.
¶ Signed to half title ‘W. Heaton Cooper.’

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Corder, Philip.

THE DEFENCES OF THE ROMAN FORT AT MALTON.

Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, N.d. c.[1931]. 1st Ed. Tall 8vo. 115pp. + [i]. 52 figures including 5 folding. E.ps. lightly browned, original black lettered olive green cloth.
¶ Roman Malton and District Report No. 2. With related material inserted, photographs, a heavily annotated pamphlet, two letters - one from and one to Sir Edward Whitley of Campfield House Malton.

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Corner, Sidney.

RURAL CHURCHES. Their Histories Architecture and Antiquities.

Groombridge and Sons, N.d. c.[1869]. 1st Ed. 4to. viii + 72pp. Red lettered title page, 18 colour plates from paintings by the Author. Light foxing, marbled e.ps., gilt rule edged green half morocco with green cloth boards, tail of upper board at gutter hinge bumped, corners to boards scuffed with loss, dec. gilt tooled and lettered spine.

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Corporation of London.

THE CITY OF LONDON SEWERS ACT, 1848, The City of London Sewers Act, 1851, and the City of London Sewers Act, 1897, With Index.

London: W.H. and L. Collingridge Printers, 1899. xxxviii + 218pp. E.ps. lightly browned, half calf with marbled boards, corners sl. scuffed, gilt ruled bands and gilt lettered leather title label to spine.

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Cox, Thomas.

HEREFORDSHIRE.

[London : In the Savoy: printed by Eliz. Nutt; and sold by M. Nutt, and J. Morphew], c.[1720]. Thin Sm. 4to. pp.(922-96[4]). Folding map by Robt. Morden, table of distances of Herefordshire and Hampshire. Some browning, bound in C19th half roan with marbled boards, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
¶ Extract from ‘Magna Britannia et Hibernia, antiqua et nova ...’ circa 1720. With the signature of Basil Butcher (1902-2002) well-known Hereford antiquarian. With two signatures of M.G. Watkins (1836-1911). Rev. Watkins English cleric and author of articles for the Dictionary of National Biography under his initials M. G. W. and several books.

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Crawford, O.G.S.

THE LONG BARROWS OF THE COTSWOLDS. A Description of Long Barrows, Stone Circles and other Megalithic Remains in the area covered by Sheet 8 of the Quarter-Inch Ordnance Survey comprising the Cotswolds and the Welsh Marches.

John Bellows, Gloucester, 1925. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. xv + 246pp. Numerous plans and ills. including 2 folding maps. From the library of Dr James Bynon, lower edge untrimmed, some light browning, original bright gilt lettered cloth, minor wear.
¶ The contents call for a folding map in rear pocket, the map nor the pocket are present, possibly a later issue? Including Breconshire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Radnorshire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire.

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Creighton, Mandell.

THE STORY OF SOME ENGLISH SHIRES.

Religious Tract Society, 1897. 1st Ed. 4to. 312pp. Photogravure frontis. after an unpublished drawing by Thomas Hearne, numerous ills. Age toning, edges and frontis. sl. foxed, original gilt lettered vellum, lacking ties, tail of upper boards and spine soiled, t.e.g.
¶ No. 90 of a Limited Edition of 150 Copies. Mandell Creighton (1843–1901) British historian and a bishop of the Church of England. A scholar of the Renaissance papacy.

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