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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 PATRIARCH'S WIFE.
Literary Evidence and the History of the Family.
Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. 8vo., pp.x,272, grey cloth lettered in black, double b/w frontispiece; very slight foxing to edges of text block, otherwise near fine, in a very good unclipped 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 Peoples of Europe: THE LOMBARDS. The Ancient Longobards.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. 8vo., pp.xxvii,256, black hardcover, gilt, 42 b/w illustrations and 17 maps and figures; fine, in a very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE PILGRIMS' COMPLAINT. A Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor North.
Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 8vo., pp.xiv,307, black hardcover lettered in silver; a fine copy, in fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE POLITICAL LIFE OF JOSIAH C. WEDGWOOD. Land, Liberty and Empire, 1872-1943.
Woodbridge: Th Boydell Press/ The Royal Historical Society, 2010. 8vo.,pp. xi,230, pictorial hardcover; light creasing to head of spine, a clean and very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE POLITICS OF COURT SCANDAL IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603-1660.
Cambridge University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xvii,312, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good, clean copy, in very good, lightly shelfworn unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE POLITICS OF FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: John Vales’s Book.
Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, for The Richard III & Yorkist History Trust. 8vo., pp.xii,289, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w figures; ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small price note to inner margin of front free endpaper, corners bumped, internally clean and very good, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine and rubbed to upper edge.
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THE POOR LAW OF LUNACY.
The Administration of Pauper Lunatics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England.
London/Washington: Leicester University Press, 1999. 8vo., pp.xix,310, hardcover (glazed boards); light toning to edges, a very good copy.
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THE POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN, 1831-1835. Published by H. Hetherington. A Reprint of the Original Journal.
London: The Merlin Press, 1969. Four volumes, facsimile with Introduction, 4to., green cloth with red title bands, gilt; light rubbing to extremities, a very good set, in lightly worn unclipped dust-jackets, which are unformly lightly sunned to the spines, with small closed tears to extremities, and one larger closed tear to the head of the spine of the jacket to Volume I.
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THE PREACHING OF THE CRUSADES TO THE HOLY LAND, 1095-1270.
Cambridge, The Medieval Academy of America, 1270. 8vo.,pp. 281, red hardcover, silver lettering to spine; ownershp bookplate to front paste down endpaper, upper corner of front free endpaper is clipped, lightly rubbed to boards, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE PREHISTORY OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Reprint, large 8vo., pp.xviii,321, pictorial paperback, b/w frontispiece, b/w figures and illustrations throughout; light shelf-wear and creasing to wrappers, small 1cm closed tear to wrappers at head of spine, internally fresh, a very good copy.
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THE PRESS GANG IN ORKNEY AND SHETLAND.
Orkney: The Orcadian Press, 2011. 8vo., pp. xiv,352, red cloth, gilt, pictorial endpapers, colour frontispiece, 47 illustrations; a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE PRICE OF GLORY: VERDUN 1916.
London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1916. First edition, 8vo., pp.xi,372, red cloth, gilt, b/w plates, maps and plans; bookshop sticker to front paste-down endpaper, else very good, in price-clipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, with rubbing, creasing and slight chipping to extremities, good+, and now in a protective cover.
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THE PRINCIPLES OF MINING ADAPTED TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SOUTH KENSINGTON SYLLABUS.
Sunderland: Privately published, and printed by Henry Mitchell, 1889. 8vo., pp.505,36 (Index), half claret morocco, gilt, brown cloth boards, b/w plates; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, edges and prelims, loss to lower corner of rear free endpaper, light marking to cloth, rubbing to extremities, internally clean, overall a very good copy.
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THE PRIOR OF THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2009. 8vo.,pp. 210, green hardcover, gilt lettering, b/w illustrations and map; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE PROBLEM OF LABOUR IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND.
York: York Medieval Press. 8vo., pp.viii,153, black hardcover, lettered in silver and with printed paper label to front board, 14 b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.
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THE PROCLAMATIONS OF IRELAND, 1660-1820. Set of Five Volumes:
Volume I. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1820; Volume II. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of James II, 1685-1691; Proclamations Issued During the Reigns of William III, 1689-1702, and Mary II, 1689-94; Proclamations Issued During the Reign of Anne, 1702-1714; Volume III. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George I, 1714-27; Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George II, 1727-60; Volume IV. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George III, Part I. 1760-90; Volume V. Proclamations Issued During the Reign of George III, Part II, 1791-1820.
Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2014. Five volumes, 8vo., pp.lxxxii,483; lxii,742;lxii,567;lxi,552;lxii,596, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; mild pencilling to Introduction (Volume I), else a fine set, in near-fine unclipped dust-jackets.
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