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AN HISTORICAL GAZETTEER OF CHELTENHAM.
Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1997. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. xiv + 208pp. Map, 3 folding plans in pocket at rear. Ownership signature, binding very sl. cockled, good in d/w. very lightly faded to spine.
¶ Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 9.
¶ Gloucestershire Record Series Volume 9.
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YORKSHIRE. Painted & Described.
A & C Black, 1908. 1st Ed. xi + 464pp. 71 colour plates, folding map. Light browning, inscription, original olive green cloth decorated in green and white, spine bumped.
¶ 20 Shilling Series. Inman 92, 1,500 Copies.
¶ 20 Shilling Series. Inman 92, 1,500 Copies.
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RUTLAND
Faber & Faber, 1963. 1st Ed. Slim 8vo. 52pp. Numerous ills. mainly from photos., map. Illus. e.ps., good in very sl. chipped price-clipped d/w.
¶ Shell Guide.
¶ Shell Guide.
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A SELECTION OF VIEWS IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN; Comprising the Principal Towns and Churches, the Remains of Castles and Religious Houses, and Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; With Topographical and Historical Accounts of Each View. London: Published by William Miller ... 1805. Large paper copy. [x] + 55 leaves of letterpress. Half title present. With 4pp. Subscribers. Hand coloured map frontis., engraved title page, engraved dedication leaf, 54 engraved plates, 23 engraved vignettes. [Bound with]. COLLECTIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND SOKE OF GRANTHAM. Containing Authentic Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton, Now First Published From the Original MSS. in the Possession of the Earl of Portsmouth. By Edmund Turnor. London: Printed for William Miller ... 1805. Large paper copy. xvi + 200pp. Hand coloured map frontis., 2 engraved plates, 14 text engravings.
, 2 vols. in 1. 36 x 28cm. Light age toning, light browning to plates, marbled e.ps., inner gilt tooled dentelles, contemporary gilt tooled tree calf to boards, some restoration to corners, rebacked in mid C20th morocco with gilt lettered labels and gilt motifs to spine, minor marking and wear.
¶ With ‘Memorandum’ from the Anthony Gardner, O.B.E. binder Chiddingfold in beautiful calligraphy noting the state of the book and his subsequent work. Bookbinding began as a hobby for Anthony Gardner (1887-1973), but following his retirement as a Chief Structural Engineer in the Ministry of Works in 1953 he established his own bookbinding and restoration firm. Gardener was also a self-taught engraver and calligrapher. Jisc Archives Hub. With the bookplate of Theod H. Broadband, a subscriber. First work Upcott 558-562 ‘There are large paper copies of this work.’; Second work Upcott 574-575 ‘There are large paper copies of this work.’ Upcott lists an additional six plates but in our copy above those plates are included in the first work.
¶ With ‘Memorandum’ from the Anthony Gardner, O.B.E. binder Chiddingfold in beautiful calligraphy noting the state of the book and his subsequent work. Bookbinding began as a hobby for Anthony Gardner (1887-1973), but following his retirement as a Chief Structural Engineer in the Ministry of Works in 1953 he established his own bookbinding and restoration firm. Gardener was also a self-taught engraver and calligrapher. Jisc Archives Hub. With the bookplate of Theod H. Broadband, a subscriber. First work Upcott 558-562 ‘There are large paper copies of this work.’; Second work Upcott 574-575 ‘There are large paper copies of this work.’ Upcott lists an additional six plates but in our copy above those plates are included in the first work.
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LONDON: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood, to Thirty Miles Extent, From an actual Perambulation.
London: Printed and Published by Joseph Robins 57 Tooley Street ..., N.d. c.[1820]. 6 vols. 140 engraved plates, 5 folding maps and plans (with some repairs), numerous text ills. Some browning and foxing, ex.-libris Fiona Williams, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt fillet edged diced calf boards, minor marking and wear, several corners with minor loss, joints rubbed with crack along tail of upper joint of vol. 5., upper boards detached to volumes 3, 4 and 5, rebacked with original gilt tooled spines laid down, gilt lettered title labels to spine, central stain to spine of vol. 1.
¶ David Hughson (c. 1760s – 1820s), the pen name of Edward Pugh, was a writer on the topography and history of London. Best known for the above work which he prepared from an actual perambulation (a real walk) of the city. The work was first published between 1805 and 1809 by James Stratford of Holborn in 149 parts of about 24 pages each for binding into six volumes. After Stratford, it was also published by Joseph Robins of Tooley Street and parts by J. Robins of Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. The engravings are mostly by Ambrose Warren from works by Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie and Edward Gyfford. Other engravers who contributed were William Woolnoth, John Roffe and J. S. Storer
¶ David Hughson (c. 1760s – 1820s), the pen name of Edward Pugh, was a writer on the topography and history of London. Best known for the above work which he prepared from an actual perambulation (a real walk) of the city. The work was first published between 1805 and 1809 by James Stratford of Holborn in 149 parts of about 24 pages each for binding into six volumes. After Stratford, it was also published by Joseph Robins of Tooley Street and parts by J. Robins of Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. The engravings are mostly by Ambrose Warren from works by Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie and Edward Gyfford. Other engravers who contributed were William Woolnoth, John Roffe and J. S. Storer
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THE AMERICAN PILGRIM’S WAY IN ENGLAND. To Homes and Memorials of the Founders of Virginia, the New England States and Pennsylvania, The Universities of Harvard & Yale, the First President of the United States & other Illustrious Americans.
London: Fine Art Society, 1907. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. [xxvi] + 376pp. Map frontis., profusely illus. including 60 in colour, dec. initial letters and head pieces. Light marginal browning and occasional spotting, marbled e.ps., original dark green lettered dec. beige cloth, lightly browned and soiled, edges and joint rubbed with sl. wear to corners, spine browned and bumped at head and tail, t.e.g.
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THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COUNTY OF DORSET: Compiled from the Best and Most Ancient Historians, Inquisitionals Post Mortem, and Other Valuable Records and Mss. in the Public Offices and Libraries, and in Private Hands. With a Copy of Domesday Book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the County: Interspersed With Some Remarkable Particulars of Natural History ....
Westminster: Printed by John Bowyer Nichols and Sons ..., 1861-70. 3rd Ed. Corrected, Augmented, and Improved, by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. 4 vols. Folio. Rubric t.ps. 126 plates plans etc., many text ills. Ex.-libris Robert Edward Frederick Tendall, some light sporadic browning, rebound in modern half morocco with cloth boards (the morocco of vol. 4. appears to have a slightly different grain), gilt lettering to spines, minor wear, spines sl. rubbed.
¶ 'Incomparably the fullest and most detailed work on the history of Dorset and the essential starting point for any historical research'- Currie & Lewis. ODNB ‘... The wealth of information contained in the first edition of Hutchins's History, including detailed pedigrees of gentry families, histories of estates, religious houses, parish churches, towns, and villages, together with the numerous illustrations and extracts from documentary sources, ensured that the book was well received, and a second edition was soon planned ... The third edition is the fullest and most reliable, containing many additions on the antiquities, archaeology, and social and economic history of the county. It also includes numerous new illustrations, plans, references, and extracts from documentary sources, reflecting the growing interest in these aspects of local history. Hutchins's History of Dorset became and has remained an indispensable reference book and the essential starting point for any historical study of Dorset ...’ Our set appears to have all the plates and plans but without a listing. The map as usual is not present, (Squibb ‘The Plates in Hutchins' History of Dorset’),
¶ 'Incomparably the fullest and most detailed work on the history of Dorset and the essential starting point for any historical research'- Currie & Lewis. ODNB ‘... The wealth of information contained in the first edition of Hutchins's History, including detailed pedigrees of gentry families, histories of estates, religious houses, parish churches, towns, and villages, together with the numerous illustrations and extracts from documentary sources, ensured that the book was well received, and a second edition was soon planned ... The third edition is the fullest and most reliable, containing many additions on the antiquities, archaeology, and social and economic history of the county. It also includes numerous new illustrations, plans, references, and extracts from documentary sources, reflecting the growing interest in these aspects of local history. Hutchins's History of Dorset became and has remained an indispensable reference book and the essential starting point for any historical study of Dorset ...’ Our set appears to have all the plates and plans but without a listing. The map as usual is not present, (Squibb ‘The Plates in Hutchins' History of Dorset’),
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HEREFORDSHIRE BIOGRAPHIES, Being a Record of Such of Natives of the County as Have Attained to More Than Local Celebrity in Literature, Art, Sciences, Politics, and the Like, With Notices of Their Lives and Bibliograhical References, Together with an Appendix Containing Notices of Some Other Celebrities, Intimately Connected with the County, But Not Natives of it.
Hereford: Jakeman & Carver, 1890. 1st Ed. 4to. xii + 117pp. + 23pp. + [vii]. Index. Pencil notations to title page in red and black, light browning, ex.-libris Paul Latcham, original gilt lettered green cloth, minor marking, corners sl. frayed, spine bumped.
¶ One of 150 Copies.
¶ One of 150 Copies.
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THE CHARM OF LONDON. An Anthology.
Chatto & Windus, 1912. New Ed. [xii] + 372pp. With 12 colour plates by Yoshio Markino. Half title and last page browned, e.ps. spotted, original gilt lettered blue cloth with gilt ruling and decoration to upper board, corners sl. rubbed, spine browned and sl. bumped at head and tail, t.e.g. rest uncut.
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THE A TO Z OF GEORGIAN LONDON. Introductory Notes by ...
Harry Margary, Lympne Castle/Guildhall Library, 1981. Slim 4to. viii + 88pp. 24 double-page maps, with ‘key.’ Good in d/w.
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ALTRINCHAM & BOWDON. With Historical Reminiscences of Ashton-on-Mersey, Sale, and Surrounding Townships.
London & Manchester: Cartwright & Rattray Ltd., N.d. c.[1900]. 2nd Ed. xiv + 326pp. Frontis., 30 plates, folding genealogical table, dec. end pieces. F.e.ps. browned, some light marginal browning, gilt lettered dark green cloth with gilt device and title to upper board, bevelled edges, head and tail of spine bumped and sl. chipped.
¶ First edition was published by the Author in 1897.
¶ First edition was published by the Author in 1897.
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PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF THE UPPER, OR WARWICKSHIRE AVON, From its Source at Naseby to its Junction With the Severn at Tewkesbury: With Observations on the Public Buildings, and Other Works of Art in its Vicinity.
London: Published by R. Faulder ..., 1795. 1st Ed. Large 8vo. 238 x 158mm. xviii + 284pp. + Errata. 32 sepia aquatint portraits, map, ills. Some very light browning, discreet initials to half title, marbled e.ps., with the armorial bookplate of John Holmes, inner gilt dentelles, contemporary diced calf with intricate gilt tooling to edges and a spray of gilt lilac to each corner, corners sl. rubbed, sympathetically rebacked in modern calf with gilt tooled bands and motifs and gilt lettering.
¶ ESTC T79991 ‘Also issued in large paper edition.’ Abbey Scenery 427; Prideaux, pp.271 and 341; Upcott 1277; Samuel Ireland (d.1800) author and engraver, father of William Henry, forger of Shakespeare manuscripts. ‘... [the above work] was derived from a tour which had allowed him free imaginative rein in the obsessional domain of Shakespeare memorabilia. The Confessions (1805) of his son William Henry Ireland record Ireland's gullibility in accepting spurious Shakespearian legends and objects ...’ ODNB.
¶ ESTC T79991 ‘Also issued in large paper edition.’ Abbey Scenery 427; Prideaux, pp.271 and 341; Upcott 1277; Samuel Ireland (d.1800) author and engraver, father of William Henry, forger of Shakespeare manuscripts. ‘... [the above work] was derived from a tour which had allowed him free imaginative rein in the obsessional domain of Shakespeare memorabilia. The Confessions (1805) of his son William Henry Ireland record Ireland's gullibility in accepting spurious Shakespearian legends and objects ...’ ODNB.
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AN OLD-TIME FISHING TOWN: EYEMOUTH. Its History, Romance, and Tragedy with an Account of the East Coast Disaster, 14th October, 1881. With Introduction by Annie S. Swan.
Greenock: James M’Kelvie & Sons, Limited/Edinburgh and Glasgow: John Menzies & Co., Limited, 1906. 1st Ed. xiv + [ii] list of ills. + 356pp. Port. frontis., 22 plates from photos. Light marginal browning, ownership signature, sporadic spotting, e.ps. and title page spotted, original gilt lettered dark teal cloth, rubbed and soiled, bevelled edges, corners sl. rubbed, spine sl. bumped.
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A HISTORY OF HARROGATE & KNARESBOROUGH. Written by The Harrogate W..E.A. Local History Group. Foreword by Professor Asa Briggs.
The Avertiser Press Ltd. Huddersfield, 1970. 1st Ed. 492pp. 49 plates, 16 maps, 2 figures. Clipped rubbed d/w. with some browning.
¶ Inscribed to front free end paper ‘To Howard Robinson with best wishes Bernard Jennings.’
¶ Inscribed to front free end paper ‘To Howard Robinson with best wishes Bernard Jennings.’
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GLASTONIENSIS, CHRONICA SIVE HISTORIA DE REBUS GLASTONIENSIBUS E Codice MS. Membraneo antiquo Descripsit ediditque Tho. Hearnius. Qui & ex eodem Codice historiolam de antiquitate & augmentatione vetustae Ecclesiae S. Mariae Glastoniensis praemisit, multaque excerpta e Richardi Beere (abbatis Glastoniensis) Terrario hujus coenobii subjecit. Accedunt, Quaedam, eodem spectantia, ex egregio MS. nobiscum communicato ab Amicis eruditis Cantabrigiensibus, ut & Appendix, in qua, inter alia, de S. Ignatii Epistolarum Codice Mediceo, & de Johannis Dee Mathematici celeberrimi, vita atque scriptis agitur. Duobus Voluminibus.
Oxonii : e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1726. 1st Ed. 2 vols. Latin/English/Anglo-Saxon text.. lxxi + 284pp. + pp.(285-659). Volume Two with half title page only (no title page) as issued. Decorative devices and initial letters, textual copper engraving of four coins. Light age toning, ex.-libris Thomas Brooke, contemporary mottled calf with gilt ruling to edges of boards, some wear and marking, intricate gilt tooled spines with loss to head and tail and to labels.
¶ Scarce. Ex-libris Sir Thomas Brooke FSA (1830–1908), Huddersfield woollen cloth manufacturer and company director, a major collector of books and manuscripts. His library, valued at his death at over £25,000, was one of the more notable of Victorian Britain, and warranted a two volume catalogue. ESTC T29099. In this work, Joannes of Glastonbury has abbreviated the Historia de rebus gestis Glastoniensibus of Adam of Domerham for the period 1126-1291 and continued it to about the year 1400. Included also is the later continuation to the year 1493 written perhaps by the monk Thomas Wason. Included in the Appendices ‘A Supplication to Q. Mary by John Dee, with his Articles upon that occasion. His Account of his Life and Studies for half an hundred years, Extract out of John Dee’s book entituled, Famous and Rich Discoveries.’; The copy of a Paper relating to the Manour of Ashdowne or Ashbury (in Berkshire) that belong’d to Glastonbury-Abbey; which Paper was lent to me on the 10th instant [viz Nov. 10th 1725][ by my Friend Mr George Wigan ...’ With a list of 142 subscribers (pp. lxiii-lxxi of v. 1) including Sir Hans Sloane. Text in Latin with quotations and examples in English. An advertisement for this work was issued by Tho. Hearne: 'Advertisement. Just printed (in two volumes in octavo) ...'. Includes bibliographical footnotes. John of Glastonbury (fl. c. 1340) Benedictine monk and chronicler. Written in the mid fourteenth century John of Glastonbury wrote the above work (Chronicles or Antiquities of the Glastonbury Church) a chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey, from when it was founded, up to the period of John's life. The Cronica survives as a full text over seven manuscripts, and refers to the Arthurian legends several times, and John drew extensively on De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie by William of Malmesbury.
¶ Scarce. Ex-libris Sir Thomas Brooke FSA (1830–1908), Huddersfield woollen cloth manufacturer and company director, a major collector of books and manuscripts. His library, valued at his death at over £25,000, was one of the more notable of Victorian Britain, and warranted a two volume catalogue. ESTC T29099. In this work, Joannes of Glastonbury has abbreviated the Historia de rebus gestis Glastoniensibus of Adam of Domerham for the period 1126-1291 and continued it to about the year 1400. Included also is the later continuation to the year 1493 written perhaps by the monk Thomas Wason. Included in the Appendices ‘A Supplication to Q. Mary by John Dee, with his Articles upon that occasion. His Account of his Life and Studies for half an hundred years, Extract out of John Dee’s book entituled, Famous and Rich Discoveries.’; The copy of a Paper relating to the Manour of Ashdowne or Ashbury (in Berkshire) that belong’d to Glastonbury-Abbey; which Paper was lent to me on the 10th instant [viz Nov. 10th 1725][ by my Friend Mr George Wigan ...’ With a list of 142 subscribers (pp. lxiii-lxxi of v. 1) including Sir Hans Sloane. Text in Latin with quotations and examples in English. An advertisement for this work was issued by Tho. Hearne: 'Advertisement. Just printed (in two volumes in octavo) ...'. Includes bibliographical footnotes. John of Glastonbury (fl. c. 1340) Benedictine monk and chronicler. Written in the mid fourteenth century John of Glastonbury wrote the above work (Chronicles or Antiquities of the Glastonbury Church) a chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey, from when it was founded, up to the period of John's life. The Cronica survives as a full text over seven manuscripts, and refers to the Arthurian legends several times, and John drew extensively on De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie by William of Malmesbury.
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