J Kersley Fowler:

Records of old times; historical, social, political, sporting and agricultural.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1898. First edition (hardback). 9 plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Some dampstaining of the boards, scattered foxing of the contents. Only a fair copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 28587

Catalogue: 4

Frank Fox, illustrated by Percy F S Spence:

Australia (Peeps at Many Lands).

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1924. Second edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), viii, 88pp. 12 colour plates and a sketch map. Original patterned blue cloth. Please note that there is inkstaining to several of the text pages. The binding is a little rubbed and sunned; overall, this book is in fair condition only. Inman 703.

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Book number: 64916

Catalogue: 4

Hugh Fraser:

Amid the High Hills.

London: A & C Black, 1923. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 16cm), xv, 224pp. 16 colour plates, 16 b&w plates. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. This copy is marred by bowing to the boards, and there is some light foxing. We have stocked it at the bottom of a heavy pile of books to help correct the bowing.

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Book number: 54972

Catalogue: 4

Henry William Freeman:

The Thermal Baths of Bath : their history, literature, medical and surgical uses and effects, together with the Aix Massage and Natural Vapour Treatment.

London: Hamilton Adams & co, 1888. First edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), xxiii, 377pp, xx [index]. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. There is some staining of the binding, and an ownership inscription. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 69188

Catalogue: 4

Gilbert J French:

Practical Remarks on some of the minor accessories to the Services of the Church, with hints on the preparation of Altar Cloths, Pede Cloths, and other Ecclesiastical Furniture.

Leeds: T W Green, 1844. First edition (hardback). 16mo (16cm by 10cm), 178pp. Please note that the gutta-percha has perished, and the contents are completely loose in the binding. This copy also lacks the backstrip. Suitable as a binding copy.

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Book number: 43650

Catalogue: 4

Walter Howard Frere [editor]:

Pontifical Services, illustrated from miniatures of the XVth and XVIth centuries, volume II [Alcuin Club Collections IV].

London: Longmans, Green and co, 1901. First edition (hardback), volume 2 (of 2) only. Folio (43cm by 35cm), viii, 20pp plates, with a page of descriptive text accompanying each plate. Original black cloth spine, printed grey boards, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. Boards rubbed and scuffed, backstrip chipped, endpapers browned, some scattered foxing of the contents. Overall, this copy is in fair condition only, but it is suitable as a working or reference copy. This is the plates volume - the text was issued in a seperate volume. This copy formerly belonged to Ramsgate Abbey, with their bookplate to the front pastedown.

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Book number: 49771

Catalogue: 4

A B Frost:

The Bull Calf and other tales.

London: John C Nimmo, 1892. First UK edition (hardback). Oblong 8vo (17cm by 22cm), 112pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original grey cloth. Boards rubbed and stained, some spotting of the preliminary pages, chipping to the edges of a couple of pages. Overall, this book is in fair to good condition.

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Book number: 57632

Catalogue: 4

Edward Alexander Fry [editor]:

Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem, returned into the Court of Chancery in the reign of King Charles the First, part 3, 1-18 Charles I, 1625 - 1642 [The Index Library, volume 21].

London: British Record Society, 1899. First edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 17cm), viii, 175pp. Half black morocco, marbled boards, gilt titling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Scuffing to the spine and the edges of the boards, ligth foxing of the preliminary pages; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Suitable as a working or reference copy. The Index Library of the British Record Society, volume 21.

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Book number: 64957

Catalogue: 4

W P W Phillimore & George S Fry [editors]:

Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem, returned into the Court of Chancery in the reign of King Charles the First, part 1, I-II Charles I, 1625 - 1636 [The Index Library, volume 9].

London: British Record Society, 1893. First edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 17cm), x, 233pp. Half black morocco, marbled boards, gilt titling to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Scuffing to the spine and the edges of the boards, foxing to the preliminary pages; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Suitable as a working or reference copy. The Index Library of the British Record Society, volume 9.

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Book number: 64958

Catalogue: 4

Albert Garrett:

Wood Engravings and Drawings of Iain Macnab of Barachastlain.

Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1973. First edition (hardback). 4to (30cm by 21cm), ix, 116pp. Text illustrations. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Bumping to the corners of the boards, contents foxed; overall, the book is just about in good condition. The dustwrapper is in very good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. ISBN 0859360113

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Book number: 68216

Catalogue: 4

G M George:

Plain Jane.

London: Grant Richards, 1903. First edition (hardback). 32mo (13cm by 8cm), 95pp. Full-page colour illustrations by G M C Fry. Original green cloth with a vertical-line design. Some rubbing and scuffing of the binding, contents thumbed, gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 48357

Catalogue: 4

Edward Gibbon:

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

London: Frederick Westley and A H Davis, 1836. Complete in one hardback volume. 8vo (26cm by 17cm), xxxii, 1303pp. Portrait frontispiece. Half black morocco, purple cloth boards, gilt titling to the spine, marbled page edges. The spine is heavily rubbed, the frontispiece is foxed, and the inner hinges have been strengthened with tape. Overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 61652

Catalogue: 4

W Gilbert:

The Inquisitor, or, the struggle in Ferrara; an historical romance (volumes 1 and 3).

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1870. First edition, volumes 1 and 3 (of 3) only. 8vo, [v], 280pp; [v], 275pp, 2pp adverts. Original decorated maroon cloth, gilt titling to the spines.These two volumes are only in good minus condition; the bindings are rubbed and lightly stained, the bindings are lightly shaken with a couple of signatures proud, there is a blindstamp to the front free endpaper of volume 1, and each volume has an ownership inscription to the half-title. Volumes 1 and 3 of a double-decker set. William Gilbert, perhaps best known as the father of the comic writer W S Gilbert, was the author of over 40 works, all of which are hard to find today in their original editions.

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Book number: 21902

Catalogue: 4

Norman Giles:

Wildwode's Garage.

London: Hutchinson & co, no date [c. 1937]. Third impression (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 12cm), 288pp, 16pp catalogue. Original red cloth. There is some staining of the binding, some tanning of the contents, and the front free endpaper is missing. Only a fair to good copy overall, but suitable as a reading copy.

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Book number: 63078

Catalogue: 4

H B Gilliland:

Common Malayan Plants.

Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1962. Second edition (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), viii, 228pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original laminated card wrappers. There is a stain to the leading edge of the text block, and the covers are a little rubbed. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 65901

Catalogue: 4