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THE LIFE AND LYRICS OF SIR EDWARD DYER. (formerly entitled ‘At the Court of Queen Elizabeth’)
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1968. 8vo.,pp. xiii,229, navy cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; foxing to upper edge of text block and mildly to fore-edge, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has rubbing to extremities and light sunning to spine.
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THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JAMES RADCLIFFE, THIRD EARL OF DERWENTWATER (Co. Northumberland),
Viscount Radcliffe and Langley and Baron Tynedale (Co. Cumeberland) and Fifth Baronet of Dilston. With an Account of his Martyrdom for the Catholic Faith and Loyalty to his Rightful King. Followed by Some Particulars of the Life and Execution of his Brother Charles Radcliffe, De Jure Fifth Earl of Derwentwater & Other Curious Details Relating to the Family.
London: Hutchinson & Co. Limited. Limited edition, no.124 of 250 signed and numbered copies, 8vo., pp.192, uncut, bound in half dark red morocco, 5 raised bands, gilt, red cloth, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece portrait and further b/w plates with tissue guards, title in red and black, marbled endpapers, 2 folding genealogies; ownership autograph and bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small amount of dampstaining to lower margins of boards, else a very good, clean copy.
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THE LION OF FREEDOM: Feargus O’Connor and the Chartist Movement, 1832-1842.
London: Croom Helm, 1982. 8vo., pp.(viii),327, black hardcover, gilt; ownership signature to front free endpaper, pages very slightly yellowed, some light pencil scoring and notes throughout text, light rubbing to extremities, small gold mark to upper margin of front board, overall a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is somewhat faded, particularly to spine, also lightly creased to upper margin, with slight chipping to headband.
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THE LORDLY ONES. A History of the Neville Family and their part in the Wars of the Roses.
Shipley: Baildon Books. 8vo., pp.137, paperback, b/w illustrations; light crease to corner of front wrapper, a very good, clean copy.
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THE LOST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF VICTORIAN ENGLAND. The People’s Education.
London: Croom Helm, 1984. 8vo.,pp. viii,296, hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation copy, with inscription to title page, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine.
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THE MAKING OF ADDICTION.
The ‘Use and Abuse’ of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007. 8vo., pp.vi,199, black hardcover, gilt; a fine copy, in a vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MAN WHO WAS JOHN BULL. The Biography of Theodore Edward Hook 1778-1841.
London: Allendale Publishing, 1996. 8vo., pp.508, blue hardcover, gilt; a very good, fresh copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE MANOR, LORDSHIP AND CASTLE OF DANBY.
Whitby: Horne & Son. 8vo., pp. 165, green hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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THE MARTIAL MUSIC OF THE CLANS.
With Historic, Biographic, and Legendary Notes Regarding the Origin of the Music, Also Portraits of Highland Chiefs and Distinguished Clansmen, with their Seats, Arms, Etc. Etc.
Glasgow: John Mackay, Celtic Monthly Office. 8vo., pp.viii,164, rebound in blue cloth lettered in silver, with portion of original cloth laid down to front board, b/w plates and in-text illustrations; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy.
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THE MEMOIRS AND SPEECHES OF JAMES, SECOND EARL WALDEGRAVE, 1742-1763.
Cambridge University Press, 1988. 8vo., pp.xii,340, red hardcover with black titlecand, gilt, b/w frontispiece; Journal of Modern History label to upper corner of front free endpaper, a very good, clean copy, in good(+) unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and with some creasing/slight chipping to edges.
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THE MIRACULOUS CONFORMIST.
Valentine Greatrakes, the Body Politic, and the Politics of Healing in Restoration Britain.
Oxford University Press, 2013. 8vo., pp.xiii,279, pictorial hardcover, b/w frontispiece and 8 further b/w illustrations; fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE MORNING CHRONICLE SURVEY OF LABOUR AND THE POOR: THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS. [Set of Six Volumes]
Firle, Sussex: Caliban Books, 1980. Six volumes, 8vo., paperback; spines uniformly lightly sunned, internally fresh and fine, a very good, clean set.
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THE NORMAN CONQUEST OF THE NORTH. The Region and its Transformation, 1000-1135.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 8vo., pp.(viii),329, black hardcover lettered in silver, 11 b/w maps; a very good, clean copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and slightly chipped to extremities, and sunned to spine.
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THE OXFORD MOVEMENT AND ANGLICAN RITUALISM
General Series 105
London: The Historical Association, 1983. 8vo., pp.iii,34, paperback (blue printed wrappers); lightly rubbed else, very light toning to margins, else a very good, clean copy.
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THE OXFORD MOVEMENT AND PARISH LIFE: ST. SAVIOUR’S, LEEDS, 1839-1929.
Borthwick Papers No.48.
York: University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1975. 8vo., pp.iii,34, paperback (green printed wrappers), b/w frontispiece; one small red pen mark to verso of front wrapper, very slight partial sunning to wrappers and one small mark to front, else a very good, clean copy.
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THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND, 1690-1702. Hume Brown Prize Essay, 1926. St. Andrews University Publications No. 29.
London: Oxford University Press, printed by W.C. Henderson & Son, Ltd., University Press, St. Andrews, 1690. 8vo., pp.viii,198, stiff card paperback wrappers; light toning to margins, a few marks to rear endpapers, light surface soiling to wrappers, a very good copy.
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THE PARTY OF PATRIOTISM.
The Conservative Party and the First World War.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. 8vo., pp.x,250, black hardcover lettered in silver; near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE PATENT MEDICINES INDUSTRY IN GEORGIAN ENGLAND. Constructing the Market by the Potency of Print.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 8vo.,pp. xvi,320, pictorial hardcover, b/w and colour figures and tables; presentation copy from the author with inscription to front free endpaper, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE PEOPLE'S BREAD.
A History of the Anti-Corn Law League.
London/New York: Leicester University Press, 2000. 8vo., pp.x,304, pictorial hardcover, 6 b/w illustrations; pencilled notes to rear endpapers, else internally clean and fresh, with partial sunning to spine/boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE: A Study of the Rebel Armies of October 1536.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.xviii,445, green hardcover, gilt, b/w maps; a near-fine copy, in a very good+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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