BENNETT Richard

The King's Mills of Ancient Liverpool. A Paper read before the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 12 March 1896. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS

Printed by Thomas Brakell, Liverpool,, 1897. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; original boards printed in black, red cloth back, boards mildly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Blythman 445.

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Book number: 42864

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BENNETT H.S.

Life on the English Manor. A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400.

University Press, Cambridge,, 1937. 8vo., First Edition, with 18 plates on 6 and 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, gilt back, covers very lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The original edition of this standard reference is elusive in this condition.

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Book number: 14996

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Keywords: topography, manors, middle ages, english peasantry, h.s. bennett, topography, general, life, english, manor

BENNETT Richard

[Publisher's Prospectus for] The History of Corn Milling. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS

Simkin Marshall & Co.,, [?1898]. 4pp., Roy., 8vo., First Edition, text in red and black, with photographs and illustration in the text; single fold, one horizontal fold, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of the publisher's prospectus for Bennett & Elton's standard work (four volumes, 1898-1904). A RARE SURVIVAL.

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Book number: 44547

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Keywords: topography, windmills, watermills, milling, corn milling, corn mills, richard bennett, john elton

BENNEY D. E.

An Introduction to Cornish Watermills. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Bradford Barton, Truro,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 44479

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BENTWICH Helen C.

History of Sandwich in Kent. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED

T F Pain & Sons, [Deal],, [1971]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs and illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; original dove-blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (THIS COPY NO. 76).

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Book number: 45992

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BERESFORD M. W.

Medieval England. An Aerial Survey. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,, [1979]. Roy. 8vo., Best Edition, with over 150 illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A classic study and the standard reference. This is the considerably revised and expanded version of the original edition of 1958.

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Book number: 7705

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Keywords: topography, early britain, roman britain, archaeology, aerial surveys, beresford

BERGIN, T.

Salford. A City and its Past. [Second Edition]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

City of Salford Cultural Services Department, Salford,, 1989. 8vo., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, numerous plates, and illustrations, facsimiles and maps in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1975.

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Book number: 22282

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BERRY Claude

The County Books. Cornwall. Foreword by A. L. Rowse. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Robert Hale,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter a little chafed at extremities. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series.

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Book number: 2395

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Keywords: topography, county books, cornwall, claude berry, rowse

BESANT Walter

Westminster. A New Edition, with an Etching by Francis Walker and Illustrations by William Patten and others. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Chatto & Windus,, 1902. 8vo., with etched frontispiece (original tissue guard present), armorial title and numerous illustrations in the text; blue patterned cloth, boards blocked in blind, gilt back, black endpapers, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publisher's catalogue at front , small personal bookplate on frontispiece recto and 4pp publisher's catalogue (unopened) at rear.

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Book number: 39393

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Keywords: topography, london, westminster, besant, walter besant

BESSBOROUGH Earl of

A Place in the Forest; being the Story of Stansted in Sussex. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Batsford,, [1958]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 54 illustrations (5 full-page), a double-page map and 2 double-page pedigrees in the text; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 25041

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BETJEMAN John

Murray's Buckinghamshire Architectural Guide.

John Murray,, [1948]. 8vo. First Edition with numerous plates throughout and folding coloured map; red boards upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in white and black boards lightly age-marked else a very good bright clean copy. With contemporary signature and accompanying personal bookplate on front free endpaper. Peterson A16; Stapleton p.25.

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Book number: 27564

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BETJEMAN John

Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide. Editors John Betjeman, John Piper. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

John Murray,, [1949]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and folding map coloured in outline; strongly bound in green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp,clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on title verso only. The second of Murray's Architectural Guides. The series was commissioned by Jock Murray as a successor to Betjeman and Piper's pre-war Shell Guides. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Peterson A17; Stapleton 77.

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Book number: 37482

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BETJEMAN John

Victorian and Edwardian London from old Photographs. Introduction and Commentaries by John Betjeman. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Batsford,, [1969]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and very numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout, signature on front paste-down; brown tweed cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Peterson A36.

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Book number: 33493

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BEVAN G. Phillips

Handbook to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Sixth Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SIXTH EDITION

Stanford,, 1887. 8vo., Sixth Edition, with 2 plans (one folding) and large folding map, small neat contemporary signature on half-title; original brown cloth, sides with multiple frame border in blind enclosing title lettered in gilt, gilt back, backstrip a little faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, bright, clean copy. With 32pp of trade advertisements (many illustrated) bound in at end. First published in 1876, 'Bevan' is probably the best of the later nineteenth century pocket or 'portmanteau' guides to the county. These were deliberately condensed, both in size and content, to provide ultimately portable information for those visiting by rail and road. A seventh and final edition appeared in 1891 by which time the larger and weightier guides were beginning to dominate. Bennett, p.204.

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Book number: 33444

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BEVAN G. Phillips

Tourist's Guide to the County of Kent. Containing full Information concerning all its favourite Places of Resort, both on the Coast and Inland. Revised and edited by R.N. Worth. Seventh Edition. NEAR FINE COPY

Edward Stanford,, 1891. Sm. 8vo., Seventh Edition, with folding map as frontispiece and 2 plans (one folding), some occasional underlining towards rear of text; original terracotta cloth, boards framed in blind, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. A remarkably well-preserved copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Bennett, p.204.

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Book number: 18670

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