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THE RISE OF THE EGALITARIAN FAMILY; Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-Century England.
London: Academic Press, 1978. 8vo., pp.xviii,324, brown faux leather, orange lettering, b/w frontispiece and illustrations; ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise internally clean, a few light marks to boards, a very good copy in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed and lightly chipped to extremities, with light sunning to spine.
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THE ROYAL FORESTS OF ENGLAND.
The Antiquary’s Books Series.
London: Methuen and Co, 1905. First edition, 8vo., pp.372,(4)adverts, uncut, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 24 further b/w plates and 23 in-text illustrations; small ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, toning to free endpapers, foxing to prelims and ultimate leaves, light foxing to upper margins, rubbing to extremities, with slight wear at headband, light partial sunning to cloth, a very good copy.
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THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AND THE KING’S AFFINITY. Service, Politics and Finance in England 1360-1413.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 8vo., pp.viii,327, red cloth, gilt; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, staining to lower corner of front free endpaper, otherwise very good, in partially sunned unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SATIRICAL GAZE. Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England.
Oxford, 2004. 8vo., pp.xviii,281, navy hardcover, gilt, 87 b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SCOTTISH BOOK TRADE 1500-1720.
Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland.
East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2000. 8vo.,pp. 308, hardcover, gilt, b/w figures, graphs and tables; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE SECURITY SERVICE 1908-1945. The Official History.
Kew: Public Record Office, 1999. 8vo., pp.(iv),442, black hardcover lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; near-fine, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE SOUTHWOLD DIARY OF JAMES MAGGS 1818-1867. [Two Volumes.] Volume I: 1818-1848. Volume II: 1848-1867. (Suffolk Records Society Volumes XXV and XXVI)
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, for the Suffolk Records Society, 1983. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.ix,149;vii,183, olive hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, b/w frontispiece, 10 further b/w illustrations to volume I, 5 further b/w illustrations to volume II; volume I contains ink inscription to front free endpaper verso, and is very slightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, volume II contains editor’s ink inscription to front free endpaper verso and signature to title and is very lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good indeed, both in unclipped pictorial dust jackets which are lightly shelf-worn and very slightly soiled but otherwise very good.
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THE SOVEREIGNTY OF REASON.
The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightenment.
Chichester: Princeton University Press, 1996. 8vo., pp.,xi,332, paperback; a fresh and near fine copy
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THE ST. ALBANS CHRONICLE, Volume I. 1376-1394. Volume II 1394-1422. The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003. 8vo., pp.cxviii,1030,c,888, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece and two further b/w plates to Vol I; a fine set, in vg unclipped dust-jackets, which are sunned to spine and are now in protective covers.
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THE STORY OF PETERLOO, WRITTEN FOR THE CENTENARY, AUGUST 16, 1919. Pre-print of an Article which is to appear in “The Bulletin of the John Reynlds Library”, April- October, 1919.
Manchester: At the University Press, 1919. 8vo.,pp. 45, printed wrappers, b/w illustrations, b/w fold-out plan; toned to title page and margins throughout, wrappers heavily rubbed, chipped to extremities and spine, with loss to head and foot of spine, toned and foxed to margins and toned and cracked to spine, contents still firm, a good copy.
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THE STREETS OF LONDON: From the Great Fire to the Great Stink.
London: River Oram Press, 2003. 8vo.,pp. xvi,256, paperback, b/w illustrations; light toning to margins, light sunning to spine, a very good copy.
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THE TOBACCO LORDS. A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities.
Edinburgh University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.x,209, paperback, b/w illustrations, sunning to front cover, slight creasing to upper right edge of front cover and first few pages, otherwise a very good copy.
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THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 8vo., pp.viii,485,32 (adverts), uncut, pictorial green cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w plates and in-text illustrations; foxing to fore-edges, light tobacco odour, rubbing to extremities, spine lightly sunned, otherwise very good.
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THE TRIAL OF THOMAS HUNTER, PETER HACKET, RICHARD M'NIEL, JAMES GIBB, AND WILLIAM MCLEAN, THE GLASGOW COTTON-SPINNERS, BEFORE THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY, AT EDINBURGH, ON CHARGES OF MURDER, Hiring to Commit Assassinations - and Committing, and Hiring to Commit, Violence to Persons and Property. To Which is Annexed Statistics Connected with the Spinning Trade, &c., of Glasgow. With Portraits of the Prisoners.
Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838. 8vo., pp.(ii),141,(i),8, b/w frontispiece, stitched leather-coated wrappers; faint ink ownership autograph to front endpaper, foxing to title and frontispiece, wear to extremities of wrappers, with partial loss to spine, a good copy.
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THE TROPHIES OF TIME. English Antiquarians of The Seventeenth Century.
Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.xi,382, navy hardcover, gilt, 16 b/w illustrations; a very good, fresh copy, in vg just slightly creased unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE VIKINGS AND THE VICTORIANS:
Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Cambridge: B.S. Brewer. 8vo., pp.xv,434, blue cloth, gilt, 12 b/w illustrations; fresh and near-fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE WARENNE (HYDE) CHRONICLE.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2013. 8vo., pp.,lxx,140,black hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations, maps; a near fine copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket in clear book protector.
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THE WHIG REVIVAL, 1808-1830.
Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 8vo., pp.xvi,235, black hardcover, silver gilt, 9 b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in a very good pictorial unclipped dust jacket, which is lightly rubbed to edges, and with slight remnant of removed barcode sticker to rear.
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THOMAS ATTWOOD: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A RADICAL.
Montreal & London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.377, red hardcover, black lettering, b/w plates; pencilling to rear paste-down endpaper, very slight soiling to edges of text block, light rubbing to extremities, spine slightly sunned, very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THORPE BASSETT The Story of Thorpe Bassett Village
Privately Published. 4to., pp.164, ring bound wrappers, b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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