Quinn, Tom and Felix, Paul,

LAST OF THE LINE - Traditional British Craftsmen.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1999, 1st edn., 160pp, coloured photo pictorial double title, numerous coloured photo ills. in text, coloured endpapers, large landscape format (9.5 x 10.5 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, a pictorial record of some thirty-seven manual skills that are still practised today, some on a very limited scale, including bark tanner, bow maker, coppicer, cheese maker, kipper smoker, peat cutter, charcoal burner, flint knapper, watermiller, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43004

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history craftsmen tanner cheese maker coppicer kipper smoker fisherman peat cutter watermiller charcoal burner freeminer flint knapper reed cutter

Quinn, Tom,

MASTERCRAFTS - Rediscover British Craftsmanship.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 2010, 1st edn., 256pp, coloured photo pictorial frontis, numerous coloured and half tone ills. in text, coloured endpapers, tv tie-in, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, puiblished to accompany the BBC tv series of the same name, it follows apprentices learning their craft from six masters covering metalwork, woodcraft, stonework, thatching, glass-making and weaving, covering the raw materials, how they are processed, the tools of the crafts and the techniques employed, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43005

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history crafts stonework thatching woodwork glass making metalwork weaving

Quinn, Tom,

SMUGGLERS' TALES.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1999, 1st edn., 192pp, pictorial half title and title, coloured pictorial frontis, line drawings, coloured and half tone ills. in text, chapter heads in line, large format (10.5 x 8 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, for centuries smuggling was a major feature of life in every part of Britain and the smuggler was, unlike today, almost universally supported so that duty on spirits, lace, tobacco, tea, etc. could be abvoided. The days of the romantic smugglers ended in the middle of the nineteenth century but the memory of their exploits lives on and a selection of the best is reproduced here, bump fore-edge lower boartd, dustwrapper: dent fore-edge lower flap fold, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43006

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history smugglers contraband cutters luggers ghosts ghouls

Reid, Colin,

ACTION STATIONS.

Robson Books, London, 1987, 1st edn., 160pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., line darwings in text, dar blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo montage dustwrapper, a history of Broadcasting House, the headquarters of the BBC from 1932, faintly bumped at lower tips, dustwrapper: sl. creasing at spine ends, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32129

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history bbc broadcasting radio

Richards, Julian,

BLOOD OF THE VIKINGS.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001, 1st edn., [vi], 250pp, coloured photo pictorial double title, maps, coloured and half tone ills. in text, coloured endpapers, tv tie-in, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, published to accompany the BBC tv series of the same name, a study of the influence of the Vikings that remains in the British Isles from their initial raiding voyages to later settlement and integration with the native inhabitants, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43007

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history vikings scandinavia raiders farmers traders law makers

Richmond, I. A.,

ROMAN BRITAIN.

Pelican/Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1960, paperback, 240pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., maps, diagrams and plans in text, paper wrappers, in Pelican turquoise and white livery, laminated upper and lower wrapper, no. 1 in the Pelican History of England series, '.. a general picture of the Roman province of Britain during the period from A.D. 43 to the fifth century..', sl. roll to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 40233

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: english history invasion roman military religion cults tribes

Rolt, L. T. C.,

VICTORIAN ENGINEERING.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974, paperback, 300pp, 48pp half tone mainly photo ills., [iii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper by Humphrey Sutton, a wide ranging survey of the revolutionary engineering feats of Victoria's reign, sl. roll and slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., light vertical creasing at spine and diag. crease lower wrapper, edges tanned, good plus,

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Book number: 35318

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: history british technology invention engineering victorian industrialisation railway

Rolt, L. T. C.,

VICTORIAN ENGINEERING.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1980, reprint, paperback, 300pp, 48pp half tone mainly photo ills., [iii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper by Humphrey Sutton, a wide ranging survey of the revolutionary engineering feats of Victoria's reign, lightly rubbed at extrems., light diag. crease lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 35319

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: history british technology invention engineering victorian industrialisation railway

Rolt, L. T. C.,

VICTORIAN ENGINEERING.

Pelican / Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, 300pp, 48pp half tone mainly photo ills., [iii] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper by Humphrey Sutton, a wide ranging survey of the revolutionary engineering feats of Victoria's reign, lightly rubbed at tips, light diag. crease lower cnr. upper wrapper, edges tanned and a little foxed, very good,

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Book number: 42282

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: history british technology invention engineering victorian industrialisation railway

Ross, Anne and Robins, Don,

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A DRUID PRINCE - The Story of an Archeaological Sensation.

Guild publishing, London, 1989, club edn., 176pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., half tone ills., line drawings, facsimiles and maps in text, pictorial endpapers, dark brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the archeological investigation and interpretation following the discovery of a naked body, ritually slain, in a peat bog at Lindow Moss, on the southern outskirts of Manchester, fine in a fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 39268

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history archaeology roman britain celts druid priest lindow moss

Ross, Josephine,

THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KING (Originally published as Suitors to the Queen).

Phoenix, London, 2005, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, [viii], 198pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the suitors of the 'virgin queen', Elizabeth I, who remained unmarried throughout her reign, edges stanned, near fine,

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Book number: 40845

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history elizabeth monarchy dudley leicester seymour philip essex

Rowse, A. L.,

BOSWORTH FIELD and the Wars of the Roses.

History Book Club, London, 1967, club edn., xiv, 317pp, 16pp plates, maps and genealogical table in text, pale green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, a study of the ruling class of 15th Century England that seemed to be set on destroying itself, covering the accession of Richard II, the Wars of the Roses, the death of Richard III at Bosworth Field and the new dynasty of Tudors, lightly bumped at tail of spine, faint foxing to edges, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28957

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history wars roses bosworth field richard II III henry tudor lancaster york

Rowse, A. L.,

BOSWORTH FIELD and the Wars of the Roses.

Wordsworth Editions, Ware, 1999, reprint, paperback, [xiv], 317pp, 15pp half tone photo ills., pedigree and maps in text, large format (8.5 x 5 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a recreation of the dynatic conflict of the final battle between the houses of York and Lancaster, the Wars of the Roses, at Bosworth Field in August 1485, marking of the end of Medieval England and the start of the Tudor dynasty, lightly rubbed at tips, faint diag. crease lower wrapper, very good plus,

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Book number: 41177

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history wars roses bosworth field richard II III henry tudor lancaster york

Rowse, A. L.,

THE ENGLAND OF ELIZABETH.

Reprint Society, London, 1953, club edn., 605pp, frontis and 22pp half tone and line ills., red cloth with black title panel lettede in gilt at spine, decoration in gilt upper board, upper edge coloured, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the people, social conditions, instutions and administration of England under Elizabeth the First, edges tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing upper edges, short closed tear upper edge lower panel, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28980

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: british history england elizabeth tudor

Salway, Peter,

ROMAN BRITAIN.

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990, trade paperback, xx, maps, 824pp, [vi] ads., photo pictorial upper wrapper, an absorbing and authoritative account of Britain under the Romans, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,

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Book number: 40234

Catalogue: British History

Keywords: bitish history roman caesar invasion