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A DOUBLE SINGLENESS.
Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo., pp.x,220, navy cloth, gilt; near-fine in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A.E. WAITE: A Bibliography.
Wellingborough: The Aquarian Press, 1983. 8vo., pp.192, black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates; a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A FLINT SEASIDE CHURCH: St Augustine’s Abbey Church, Ramsgate.
Ramsgate, The Pugin Society. 8vo.,pp. ii,58, paperback, b/w and colour figures; lightly rubbed to extremities, a very good copy.
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A GARDEN DIARY,
September 1899-September 1900.
London: Methuen and Co, 1901. 8vo., pp.(iv),245, uncut, quarter dark green buckram, gilt, with gilt-lettered green paper-covered boards, t.e.g., title in red and black; toning to free endpapers, foxing to fore-edges and to prelims, some foxing within, light paper-splitting to inner hinges, a very good copy.
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A GENEALOGY OF MANNERS.
Transformations of Social Relations in France and England from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century.
Chicago/London: University of Chicago. 8vo., pp.x,312, paperback; sunned to spine, slight shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean and fine, overall a very good copy.
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A GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EMPIRE OF GERMANY, HOLLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, SWITZERLAND, PRUSSIA, ITALY, SICILY, CORSICA, AND SARDINIA;
With a Gazetteer of Reference to the Principal Places in Those Countries. Compiled and translated from the German. To which are added, Statistical Tables of all the States of Europe; Translated from the German of J.G. Boetticher of Konigsberg. With a Supplementary Table, Showing the Changes Since the Commencement of the Present War. Illustrated with Twemty-Four Plates, and a large Three-Sheet Post Map of Germany, Holland, Italy, Etc.
Lo: John Stockdale, 1800. 4to., pp.390,viii,87, full contemporary speckled calf, 5 raised bands, red title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, frontispiece map, 3 folding maps, 23 city plans; light evidence of removed bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, minor marginal worming, not affecting printed area, 4cm wear to foot of upper external joint, 1.5cm wear to foot of lower external joint, rubbing/superficial wear along upper joint and to lower inner corner of front board, a clean and handsome copy.
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A GLOSSARY OF PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL WORDS USED IN ENGLAND.
To which is now first incorporated the Supplement.
London: John Russell Smith, 1839. 8vo., pp.iv,188,4,16 (adverts), uncut, cloth, with printed paper label to spine; final advert leaf cropped, small remnant of ownership label to front paste-down endpaper, sunning to spine and, lightly, to margins, rubbing to extremities, a good copy.
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A GOLDEN CASKET OF STORIES.
London: John Long, Limited, 1911. First edition, 8vo., pp.320, pictorial purple cloth, lettered in gilt and stamped in green and beige, colour frontispiece and fifteen b/w plates by Amelia M. Bowerley; edges and prelims foxed, a very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, foxed, with tear and small area of loss to head of upper fold over spine, chipping to headband, and toning to spine.
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A GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE METROPOLITAN CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY;
Accompanied by a History and Description
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; J. Murray. Folio, pp.viii,174, attractive, twentieth-century quarter calf with five raised bands, gilt, marbled boards, new endpapers, 20 engraved plates, including additional pictorial title and one in the text; light foxing to pictorial title, lower corner of rear board a little bumped, otherwise a very good copy indeed.
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A GREAT GOTHIC FANE: The Catholic Chirch of St. John the Baptist, Norwich.
Brighton: Heath, Cranton & Ouseley, 1913. 8vo.,pp. 310, pictorial green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations and plates, colour frontispiece; toning to margins, webbing visible to cracking at inner hinge, rubbing to extremities and light wear to corners, cloth lightly toned and soiled, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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A GUIDE TO THE PICTISH STONES.
Edinburgh: Birlinn, 1997. 8vo.,pp. 154, paperback, b/w illustrations and figures; toned to margins, otherwise very good.
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A GUIDE TO THE ROWNTREE AND MACKINTOSH COMPANY ARCHIVES 1862-1969. Borthwick Texts and Calendars 22.
York: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York, 1862. Large 8vo., pp.xiv,239, paperback; light shelfwear to wrappers, internally clean, a very good copy.
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A HALIFAX CIDER JAR.
With an appreciation of the potter, Isaac Button, by Barry L. Sheridan, Keeper of Exhibitions, Calderdale Museums Service.
Castleford: Yorkshire Art Circus, 1987. Limited edition, one of 100 copies illustrated by this artist, and one of 800 copies overall, 8vo., pp.21,(i), quarter green cloth, gilt, marbled boards with printed paper title label, 6 tipped in b/w plates; with loose advertisement for the publication, and invitation to the accompanying exhibition, a fine copy.
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A HAUNTED IMAGINATION.
David & Charles, 1994. 4to.,pp. 128, hardcover, white lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, colour frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.
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A HERMIT'S COOKBOOK.
Monks, Food & Fasting in the Middle Ages.
India: Continuum International Group, 2011. 8vo., pp.xii, 209, tan hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations, dedication and faint marking to front title page, otherwise a very good, clean copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear protective cover.
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A HISTORY OF BOARD-GAMES OTHER THAN CHESS.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 8vo., pp. xiii,267, black hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and figures; very light crease to front free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF BREDENBURY AND ITS LANDED ESTATE.
Bromyard: Bromyard & District Local History Society, 1997. 8vo., pp.viii,197, paperback, b/w illustrations; very good+.
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A HISTORY OF BRUNEI.
Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1994. First edition, 8vo., pp.xx,212, grey hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, endpaper maps; rubbing to foot of spine, a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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A HISTORY OF CHESS.
Oxford University Press/Oxbow Books. Special edition for Oxbow Books, reprinted lithographically at the Oxford University Press from corrected sheets of the first edition, 8vo., pp.900, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations and figures, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a vg+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed.
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A HISTORY OF CLAN CAMPBELL. [Three Volume Set]. Volume I: From Origins to Flodden. Volume II: From Flodden to the Restoration. Volume III: From the Restoration to the Present Day.
Edinburgh: Polygon. Three volumes., 8vo., pp.xxx,338;xxx,338;xxvii,444, black cloth, gilt, b/w and colour illustrations; a near-fine set, in vg unclipped dust-jackets.
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