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PIGOT & CO.S BRITISH ATLAS: COMPRISING THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND ...
Salamander, London, (2000). Facsimile of 1840 edition, slightly reduced in size.
Unpaginated, Folio (13 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1840652551 Remainder of title "(Upon Which Are Load Down All Railways Completed And In Progress), With Large Sheet Map of England And Wales (endpapers), And A Circular One Of The Coun try Round London: The Whole Engraved On Steel Plates. Accompanied By Topographical And Statistical Accounts Of Each County; Railway Information; Tables Of Distances Of The Principal Towns In Great Britain; And An Itinerary Of The Most Useful A n d G enerally Travelled Routes Throughout The United Kingdom." Map endpapers, 39 full page color county maps plus circular map around London. "An excellent summary essay is also given for each individual county, providing information on the o ri gi n o f its name, its ancient hisory, soil and climate, produce and manufactures, rivers and canals, railways, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, and the size of population. This date provides an important insight into the era of the burgeon in g I ndu st ri al Revolution, especially regarding demographic trends and developments of transport infrastructure...Political information, such as the number of Members of Parliament returned...is also given..." Book slightly cocked, minor rubb ing . D ust jac ket ha s minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, very light rubbing, small wrinkle on front hinge. Near Fine/Very Good+
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(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England) AN INVENTORY OF THE HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE CITY OF OXFORD.
His Majesty's Stationary Office, London, 1949, reprint.
i-xxxiii, 243 pp, 4to, HC (burgundy cloth w/coat of arms in gold on front panel). A concise historical statement and pictorial record of the city. Every college, chruch and ancient building or monument has been inspected and a record made of the e ssential facts relating to each one. Illus. with many photo. reproductions, plans, fold-out plans and a large location map in rear pocket. Boards have a few light scuffs and finger print marks. Dj has 1" x 1" piece missing from bottom o f s p i n e . Spine of dj is browned, has a few closed tears, light chipping and light soiling. VG/G+
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Airne, C.W. ABBEYS OF BRITAIN. TOLD IN PICTURES.
Sankey, Hudson, Manchester, n.d.
64 pp, 8 3/8" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, map. Consists of one page of introductory text followed by pages of captioned photographs showing interiors, exteriors and architectural details. Interior - light browning to inside of covers, , minor browning to pages, rusty staples, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - browning to edges of covers, rusty staples, light browning to edges of textblock, very sma l l l i g h t stain on front cover, minor edge wear. Good+
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Airne, C.W. CATHEDRALS OF BRITAIN. TOLD IN PICTURES.
Sankey, Hudson, Manchester, n.d.
64 pp, 8 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, map. Consists of one page of introductory text followed by pages of captioned photographs showing interiors, exteriors and architectural details. Interior - light browning to inside of covers, , minor browning to pages, rusty staples, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - browning to edges of covers, rusty staples, light browning to edges of textblock, minor ed g e w e a r . Good+
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Aldous, Tony. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS BOOK OF LONDON'S VILLAGES.
Secker & Warburg, London, (1980), Ist ed.
284 pp, lg 8vo, HC. The author's thesis is that London is a city made up of thriving small communities. He has studied 24 such villages and has sought the views of their inhabitants. Includes over 100 photos and many street plans. Map eps. Some minor edgewear and soiling to dj. VG+/VG+
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Ashworth, Frank. Illustrations by Janet Smith. BURNLEY: A TOWN AMIDST THE PENNINES.
Mid-Pennine Arts Association, n.p., n.d.
104 pp, oblong (5 3/4" H x 8 1/8" D) soft cover. ISBN 0950987808 B&w photographs. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; A Town Amidst the Pennines; Burnley's History; Buildings of Historical and Architectural Interest; Local Lore and Legend; Children 's Street and Playground Games; Burnley's Football Club: One Hundred years of Sporting History; A Burnley 'XI'; Burnley Milestones; Local Organisations relating to Heritage of Burnley; Bibliography and Sources Used. Interior - tiny bump at bottom c orner of text block, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear - mainly on spine, small crease at bottom corner of covers. Very Good
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Atherton, Louise. NEVER COMPLAIN, NEVER EXPLAIN: RECORDS OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE AND STATE PAPER OFFICE 1500-C.1960. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE READERS' GUIDE NO. 7.
PRO Publications, London, 1994.
189 pp, 4to (11 5/8" H), soft cover. ISBN1873162138 Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations. "For scholars of British diplomacy and international affairs, the records of the Foreign Office are an indispensible source. But the range of information and the sheer size of the records can be daunting to the first time user and to the increasing numbers of genealogists who attempt to trace individuals in the files of the diplomatic and consular correspondence. This book provides an introduction t o the records in all their variety and suggests appropriate classes to start with. It also examines the state papers foreign, the records of foreign policy which pre-date the modern Foreign Office records. These are more closely related to t h e l a t er papers than the dividing date of 1782 would suggest. This book also gives the would-be researcher practical guidance in using the registry systems created by the Foreign Office in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to locate survi vi ng pa p er s today." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - slight waviness to top.bottom of textblock, very light rubbing on rear cover, minor edge wear - at corners. Very Good+
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Automobile Association. SOUTHEAST ENGLAND. BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN SERIES.
Reader's Digest, London, 1987.
160 pp, 4to (11/14" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0861455185 Map endpapers. Colour photographs. "Breathtaking views, fascinating stories, archaeological treasures, links with famous characters - whether in the countryside or a town or vill age, around every corner you come face to face with Britain's heritage. All of these - and more - are to be found in this authoritative....guidebook - part of a new regional series from the AA - which captures the spirit of the best and most i n t e r e sting features of Southeast England. Local legends, literary, historical and architectural facts - together with items of natural history and geological interest - are just some of the topics packed into the 160 pages. The entries on t ow ns a nd v il lages are arranged throughout the book in alphabetical order for easy reference. And over 70 photographs conjure up images of the most memorable and beautiful scenes in the region." Small bump at bottom corner of boards. Wrink li ng at bot tom of fl ap-folds - minor edge wrinkling elsewhere. Very Good/Very Good
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Babington, Margaret A. Foreword by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. THE ROMANCE OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. SECOND EDITION REVISED.
Raphael Tuck & Sons for The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, 1934, second edition revised.
88 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover (medium blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and front board, pictorial pastedown on front board) - no dust jacket. Colour frontispiece, b&w plates. "....a word-picture, which can be read in two or three hours, of the most romantic and striking events in the history of the building, from the beginning of the Romance in 597 until the dissolution of the monastery in the reign of Henry VIII...." Two leaves with tiny corner crease, light browning to ed ges of textblock, very light wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor soiling and rubbing. Very Good
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10.00 USD
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Bagster, Hubert. DOCTOR'S WEEKEND.
Country Book Club, London, 1961.
191 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. A fictionalized version of the author's experiences as a doctor in rural England, with many comments on developments in the field of medicine over the years. One small corner bump, small fai nt stain on rear board, light wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wrinkling, two small tears with creasesand tiny chip between, browning to spine and edges. VG/G+
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Baker, J.H. MAPLEDURHAM CHURCH AND VILLAGE.
William Smith, Reading, 1970, reprint.
47 pp, 8 7/16" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). B&w photographs, maps. Contents: List of Illustrations; Foreword; Prefatory Note; Mapledurham Village; The Two Manors; Mapledurham Church - Position - Exterior - Interior; The Closed Aisle - date o f building; Monuments. The Font - Old Brasses formerly in the Church; The Church Windows. Present Day. Original Windows; Records of Two Antiquaries: (1) The Bardolf Aisle. (2) The Chancel and Nave; Additions, Renovations, Restorations; T h e B e l l s ; The Church Plate; The Church Registers and Records; The Churchyard - New Entrance Gates - Tombs and Tombstones; The Mass Dial; The Vicarage; Alien Priories; Diocese of Lincoln; Mapledurham Church's Connection with Eton College; The Ch ar i ti es - T he Almshouses; Mapledurham School; The Parish Hall, Memorial Hall and Playing Fields; The Parish Magazine; The Story of Saint Margaret; List of Vicars of Mapledurham; Supplementary: Variations in Spelling of Place-names; Alexand er Pop e and th e B lou nt Sisters; Roger Gery, Vicar 1437-1484. Revision of Income and Obligations of Incumbents; Alien Priories; The Private Road; Lord Augustus Fitz-Clarence; An Early Victorian Diary; Mapledurham House. Interior - tiny pin-hol e t hrou gh t ap prox fir st 1 2 p ages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - tiny pin-hole in front cover, tiny closed tear at top of spine, minor browning to cover edges. Very Good
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Birkett, Henry F. THE STORY OF ULVERSTON: A SHORT HISTORY. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE OF ULVERSTON, AND THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN.
Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1949.
183 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations - photographs, reproductions. "....(brings) together for the first time the many references to Ulverston in the local books of the last two-hundred years. With them there is muc h new and hitherto unpublished information, the whole being skilfully wrought into a continuous story. In it the growth of the town during eight-hundred years is traced, and the life of its people, their work and pleasure, their high-moment s a n d t h eir troubles, revealed. The author feels he has written a social history, one that not only lets the reader see Ulverston, but lights up in a small degree the larger life of England of which the Story of Ulverston forms part." Conten ts : Th e T ow n; Ancient History; The Seventeenth Century; The Empory of Furness; The Flowering; The Years Between; Victorian Ulverston; A New Century; The Wars Years and After; The Country-side. Very minor soiling and browning on endpapers, pre vio us own er 's bo okp late on front pastedown, light browning and tiny light foxing marks on edges of textblock, light edge wear at corners and at top/bottom of spine, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, a few tiny areas of color fading on b oard s. Dust ja cke t ha s mo derate to heavy edge wear/wrinkling, several small chips and tears - some with creases, faint foxing marks, light rubbing/soiling. Very Good-/Good
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95.00 USD
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Booth, J.B. Foreword by the Earl of Lonsdale. SPORTING TIMES: THE "PINK 'UN" WORLD.
T. Werner Laurie, London, 1938, first edition.
284 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations - collated. "For more than a generation 'The Pink 'Un', as 'The Sporting Times' was familiarly known, occupied a position unique in the journalistic world - a position which no p aper to-day has achieved. It was more than a mere journal for the sportsman and man about town; it established itself as a social centre of a highly specialized nature, and its readers constituted a species of home and overseas club, whose bo n d o f fellowship was good humour and good sportsmanship..." Chapter headings: The "Pink 'Un" World; The "Pink 'Un" and the Stage; The Actor-Managers; Adelphi Days; The Old School of Dramatists; "The Lane"; Benefits and "Commands"; Disillusion; A Co a ch -B a ck Ride; Character Studies; Artist and Author; Luck of the Game; Tips and Systems; Two Great Races; Low Finance; Turf Humours. Gift inscription and notation on free front end paper, moderate browning on end papers, slight browning to p age s, bo ok li ghtly cocked, book lightly cracked at several places - pages holding firmly, small slight bump at corners of boards, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light edge wear. Dust jacket has several small tears and a few chips - mainly at top /bo ttom of sp ine and flap-folds, light edge wear/wrinkling/soft creasing, fading to spine color and slightly at edges, tiny ink smudge on rear panel, old tape residue at top edge - mainly on inside surface. Very Good-/Good
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150.00 USD
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Bromhead, P.A. THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS 1911-1957.
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1958, first edition.
283 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover (dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine) - no dust jacket. Chapter headings: The House of Lords and Constitutional Development; The Composition of the House of Lords; Active and Inactive Peers; Special Class es of Peers; Procedure and Organization of Business; The Representation of the Government in the House of Lords; Party Organization and Discipline in the House of Lords; Legislative Procedure in the Lords; The Parliament Act of 1911 and Its Eff e c t s ; Conservative and National Government Bills, 1922-39; Labour Government Bills in 1924 and 1929-31; Labour Government Bills of 1945-51; Conservative Government Bills of 1951-6; Bills First Introduced in the Lords; The Lords and Private Memb er s' B il ls ; The Death Penalty Question; The House of Lords and General Debates; The Question of Reform of Powers; Proposals for Minor Modifications of Composition; Proposals for Wholesale Reconstruction of the House; Conclusion; Appendix: The E lec tio n o f t he Scottish Representative Peers; Bibliographical Note; Index. Progressively heavy creases at fore-edge of approx pages 221 to end of book, tiny edge tear at fore-edge of pages 257-260 (archivally taped), darkening to top of text bl ock, sma ll i nk d ot on bottom of text block, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light fading to spine color, minor browning to pages, minor edge wear. Good
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Brooks, J.A. Chapter introductions by Jan Tavinor. BRITAIN'S HAUNTED HERITAGE.
British Tourist Authority, London, 1990.
223 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0711705216 Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, reproductions, drawings. "(A) collection of over 250 (strange) stories in and around some of Britain's most beautiful and historic buildings, from pubs and theatres to castles and stately homes. The chapter introductions feature personal accounts by the owners of some well-known houses - including Lord Montagu at Beaulieu, the Marquess of Bath at Longleat, and the Countess of Strathmore at Glamis Castle. The stories range from the sinister to the bizarre and include such characters as 'Geranium Jane', an unfortunate barmaid who haunts the pub where she was killed by a falling plant-pot; and 'Herman th e G e r m an', a Second World War soldier so attached to his tank that he still inhabits it at Bovington Tank Museum. The stories are beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned colour photographs and line illustrations." Minor wrinkle at t o p of s pi ne. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top of spine, minor rubbing. Near Fine/Very Good+
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Broome, John. OLIVER CROMWELL - A VINDICATION.
1972 reprint.
22 pp, 7 1/4" H, soft cover (stapled in wraps). Reprinted from a lecture given at "The Wessex Conference" at Winchester in 1964. Interior - small ghost sticker mark on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - very small corner crease on front cover, minor rubbing. Very Good
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Caine, Sidney, Sir. BRITISH UNIVERSITIES: PURPOSE AND PROSPECTS.
University of Toronto Press, n.p., (1969).
272 pp, 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. Contents: Recent Basic Developments; Nature and Objects of Universities; The Part of the University in the Pattern of Education; Universities and Research; Degrees and Teaching; Student Malaise; The Governme nt of Universities; The Response of Universities to the Changing Situation; The Universities and the Government; The Criteria of Decision on University Growth; Other Ways of Financing Universities; Reflections on Policy. Previous owners m a m e s t a m p e d at top of front endpapers, small book store stamp on front pastedown, light edgewear to boards, small bump to rear bottom corner. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has light/moderate edgewear, three closed tears to top edge archiva ll y ta p ed , sm al l cr eases at top of spine, rubbing to rear panel, spine lightly browned. VG-/G
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Cannan, Joanna. OXFORDSHIRE. THE COUNTY BOOKS SERIES.
Robert Hale, London, n.d.
276 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, fold-out map at rear. "For all the beauty and variety which it offers, Oxfordshire has been always overshadowed by the fame of its county town; visitors speed along the great ro ads which lead to 'the dreaming city', ignorant alike of the lovely lost stone villages of the north and the remote valleys hidden among the beechwoods of the south-west. Everyone knows the Thames, but Oxfordshire has other rivers: 'gentle' E v e n l o d e, sparkling Windrush, reedy Thame. The towers of Oxford are world-famous, but the county has Norman churches by the dozen and, though her castles are fallen, a wealth of old manor houses and ancient farmsteads, exquisitely grouped. In t hi s bo ok t he author, born and bred in Oxford, has endeavoured to recapture the atmosphere of lost splendour which pervades the shire, to be wandered through and dreamed in rather than methodically toured." Minor browning on endpapers, tin y b ump to b ott om cor ner of approx. pages 103 to 130, light browning to edges of textblock - tiny stain on fore-edge, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light to moderate browning, moderate edge wear/wrinkling, several sm a ll c hips , 1" ch ip a t t op o f spine, tear at top of rear hinge with old tape on inside. Very Good/Good-
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Cassell, Michael. LONG LEASE! THE STORY OF SLOUGH ESTATES 1920-1991.
Pencorp, (London), [1991].
200 pp, large 8vo (9 3/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w and color illustrations. "The story of Slough Estates is the unlikely tale of a group of businessmen who bought up the entire surplus stock of British army vehicles used in World War One and ended up as a powerful force in the nation's property development industry...(It) is also the story of a company that made a town. With a community of just 15,000 in 1918, the town of Slough today boasts a prosperous population of alm o s t 1 0 0 , 0 00 with a density inextricably linked to a host which takes an extraordinary interest in its community welfare...The company could not have grown without the patronage of a good number of businesses down the years, many of which sta rt ed t h ei r ow n co rporate stories on the estate. Some, like No-Pe-Lo Potatoes and the O'Cedar Mop Co., have long since vanished but other have survived the roll call of business life, among them Mars, Flexello, Berlei, Aspro, Horlicks and Bla ck and De ck er. Thi s is their story, too." Small light bump to top corners, small bump with closed tear/wrinkles/scuff at bottom edge of front board. Dust jacket has very light rubbing, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, sm all clo sed tea r at bott om ed ge of front panel. VG-/VG
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