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BEVAN, G. Phillips (George Phillips), 1830-1889 : TOURISTS’ GUIDE TO THE COUNTY OF SURREY; CONTAINING FULL INFORMATION CONCERNING ALL ITS FAVOURITE PLACES OF RESORT. London : Edward Stanford, 1887. Third edition. An attractive guide, first published in 1879 and containing a general description of the county, detailed itineraries of forty-four suggested excursions, mainly by rail and road, but with also a river-trip from London Bridge to Richmond and Kingston. The advertisements, dated for 1889-1890, give a countrywide selection of hotels, restaurants, schools, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35124 – or simply click on the button
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BOUMPHREY, Geoffrey, 1894-1969 & OTHERS : BERKSHIRE. London : Shell-Mex & B.P., (1963). First edition. A guide to the county in the Shell “Shilling Guides” series, with an introductory essay, a gazetteer, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26516 – or simply click on the button
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BRADLEY, Tom : THE OLD COACHING DAYS IN YORKSHIRE. Leeds : Yorkshire Conservative Newspaper Co. (“The Yorkshire Post”), 1889. First edition. An absorbing account, with much on the early history, Doncaster, John Frederic Herring, Ferrybridge, Tadcaster, York, Easingwold, Thirsk, Northallerton, Boroughbridge, and especially Leeds – with much incidental local history and numerous illustrations by the author of old coaching inns and local landmarks. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39568 – or simply click on the button
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BRADSHAW, George, 1801-1853 : BRADSHAW’S RAILWAY COMPANION, CONTAINING THE TIMES OF DEPARTURE, FARES, &C. OF THE RAILWAYS IN ENGLAND ... Manchester : Bradshaw & Blacklock, 1842. “Seldom has the gigantic intellect of man been employed upon a work of greater utility” (Punch, 1865). First conceived under a different title in 1839, the Manchester map engraver’s railway companion was the world’s first such compilation. By 1842 the size had more than doubled to keep pace with the burgeoning railway system: timetables and fares are given for the London & Birmingham; the Great Western; London & South Western; Northern & Eastern; London & Blackwall; London & Greenwich; London & Brighton; South Eastern; Eastern Counties; London & Croydon; Taff Vale; Manchester & Birmingham; Sheffield & Rotherham; Stockton & Darlington; Grand Junction; Chester & Crewe; Birmingham & Derby Junction; Birmingham & Gloucester; Liverpool & Manchester; Manchester & Leeds; Midland Counties; North Midland; Newcastle & Carlisle; York & North Midland; Great North of England; Hull & Selby; Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester; Stockton & Hartlepool; Durham & Sunderland; Manchester & Bolton; Bolton & Preston; North Union; Lancaster & Preston Junction; Bolton & Leigh; Chester & Birkenhead; Preston & Wyre; Newcastle & North Shields, and the eight Scottish railways already in existence. As well as maps and plans, also included are a table for measuring travelling speed; cab fares for London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds; a timetable and fares for the Lancaster Canal packets; an almanac for 1842, and an index. £400 Currently on display at Bryars & Bryars in central London, please enquire about availability – books@ashrare.com |
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CARY, John, 1755-1835 : CARY’S TRAVELLER’S COMPANION, OR, A DELINEATION OF THE TURNPIKE ROADS OF ENGLAND AND WALES; SHEWING THE IMMEDIATE ROUTE TO EVERY MARKET AND BOROUGH TOWN THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM ... ON A NEW SET OF COUNTY MAPS ... London : G. & J. Cary, 1828. A charming pocket atlas, which first appeared in 1790, although the maps have here been wholly re-engraved and updated. Comprises general maps of England and Wales, North and South Wales, thirty-nine single-page maps of the English counties, and a large folding map of the turnpike roads of Yorkshire – all delicately hand-coloured – as well as lists of the borough and market towns, market days, distances from London, tables of over 140 primary routes, and a catalogue of Cary maps, atlases and globes. Sir George Fordham wrote of Cary as the prototype of the modern mapmaker, “the most prominent and successful exponent of his time”, the cartographer who “first combined care and beauty of design, with something really approximate to geographical accuracy”. £500 Currently on display at Bryars & Bryars in central London, please enquire about availability – books@ashrare.com |
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CHAMBERS, Robert, 1802-1871 : TRADITIONS OF EDINBURGH. London & Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers, 1912. A delightfully illustrated edition of Chambers’ engaging exploration of the byways of Edinburgh history. First published in 1825 and extensively revised in 1868, shortly before his death, the present edition adds an introduction by his grandson, Charles Edward Stuart Chambers (1859-1936) – also a publisher, further notes, and some delightful coloured illustrations by the Scottish artist James Riddel (1857-1928). “A famous book in sumptuous new raiment ... a fund of unfailing entertainment to the mind, and a joy to the eye” (Manchester City News, 1912). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42855 – or simply click on the button
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COOPER, W. Heaton (William Heaton), 1903-1995 : THE TARNS OF LAKELAND. London : Frederick Warne & Co., 1960 First edition. “The very word tarn – from the Old Norse tjorn, a small lake or a tear-drop – suggests to me an expedition and a discovery” – Cooper describes and gloriously illustrates his beloved Lake District tarns or “eyes of the mountain”. With a foreword by Sir John Hunt. SOLD |
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DEWAR, George A.B. (George Albemarle Bertie), 1862-1934 : LIFE AND SPORT IN HAMPSHIRE. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. First edition. A most attractively produced and charming account of wild life and sport – mainly in the woods, streams and chalk downs of north-west Hampshire. With two coloured plates by Archibald Thorburn, illustrations from photographs, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26352 – or simply click on the button
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[GOLDRING, Douglas, 1887-1960] – “FRANCIS, Raymond” : LOOKING FOR ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND. London : Macdonald & Co. (Publishers), (1954). First edition. A delightful and well-illustrated personal quest for echoes of the Elizabethan age in brick, stone and local memory – not just the great aristocratic houses, but the manors, farms, inns and homes of the less exalted. With chapters on Devon; mansions and manors; grammar schools; Shakespeare country; Gayhurst and Buckinghamshire; Elizabethan Kent; East Anglia; the Cotswolds; the Elizabethan inn, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43442 – or simply click on the button
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[GOLDRING, Douglas, 1887-1960] – “FRANCIS, Raymond” : LOOKING FOR GEORGIAN ENGLAND. London : Macdonald & Co. (Publishers), (1952). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed and signed by the author (under his real name) to John Foster White (1921-1997), the editor of the book and responsible for collecting the photographs with which it is illustrated . “A well-written non-technical survey by one who loves buildings and can express delight in them. It is illustrated with well chosen photographs of such places as Brighton, Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Newcastle, Blandford, Farnham, Ramsgate, and many towns with unsuspected Georgian beauty” (John Betjeman). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43443 – or simply click on the button
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[GREIG, John] : THE ANTIQUARIAN ITINERARY, COMPRISING SPECIMENS OF ARCHITECTURE, MONASTIC, CASTELLATED, AND DOMESTIC; WITH OTHER VESTIGES OF ANTIQUITY IN GREAT BRITAIN. ACCOMPANIED WITH DESCRIPTIONS. London : for the Proprietors, by William Clarke; J. Murray; S. Bagster [and others], 1815-1818. First edition. A charming compilation, originally published in monthly parts, bringing images and descriptions of out of the way architecture and antiquities throughout England, Wales and Scotland. The images, many of them the earliest known of the various towns, buildings and architectural features, were supplied by an array of local and travelling artists, including principally John Hassell, George Arnald, Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale, Luke Clennell and William Deeble – the plates engraved by Greig himself, some from his own designs, as well as Thomas Higham, Edward John Roberts, William Wallis, John Charles Varrall, Deeble himself and numerous others. Although generally ascribed to Greig’s former partner, the artist and engraver James Sargant Storer, Storer was by now working with his son on other projects – his name appears nowhere in the credits and the work would appear undoubtedly to be Greig’s, he himself engraving around one third of the plates. The engraved plates are supplemented by hundreds of anonymous but exquisitely worked head and tailpieces giving further detail. £500 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39312 – or simply click on the button
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GRIGSON, Geoffrey (Geoffrey Edward Harvey), 1905-1985 : BRITAIN OBSERVED : THE LANDSCAPE THROUGH ARTISTS’ EYES. London : Phaidon Press, (1975). First edition. A fine and well-illustrated survey of landscape painting in the British Isles – from Rubens to Victor Pasmore. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31530 – or simply click on the button
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HARDWICK, Michael, 1925-1991 : A LITERARY ATLAS & GAZETTEER OF THE BRITISH ISLES. Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1973). First edition. An absorbing guide, arranged by county and town, tabulating who lived and died where. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31216 – or simply click on the button
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HOLMES, Michael, 1931- : THE COUNTRY HOUSE DESCRIBED : AN INDEX TO THE COUNTRY HOUSES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Winchester : St. Paul’s Bibliographies, in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, (1986). First edition. An alphabetical listing of more than 4,000 country houses, with full listings of the literature relating to them culled from books and magazines. With illustrations and a bibliography. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44108 – or simply click on the button
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JONES, Sydney R. (Sydney Robert), 1881-1966 : ENGLAND EAST. London : Studio Publications, (1954). First edition. A handsome illustrated tour of the eastern side of England between the Thames Valley and the Tweed – from Chilterns to Cheviots – in the artistic company of “the Hollar of the twentieth century”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42871 – or simply click on the button
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KELLY & CO. – publishers : THE POST OFFICE DIRECTORY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WITH MAP ENGRAVED EXPRESSLY FOR THE WORK. London : Kelly & Co., 1863. Second edition : the county-only variant, omitting the Bristol section, and hence with irregular pagination. An alphabetical gazetteer of the county, from Abbenhall to Yate, listing all the principal inhabitants, both private and commercial, with a welter of further material on schools, post-offices, carriers, etc. A second alphabetical section gives a court directory of the gentry, while a third offers a trades directory – from accountants in Cheltenham to the zinc warehouse in Gloucester. The final section comprises a riot of type-faces in an unbridled display of advertising – not just from the county, but from London and the manufacturers of Birmingham and Sheffield. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40961 – or simply click on the button
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KITCHIN, Thomas, 1719-1784 : KITCHIN’S POST-CHAISE COMPANION, THROUGH ENGLAND AND WALES; CONTAINING ALL THE ANCIENT AND NEW ADDITIONAL ROADS, WITH EVERY TOPOGRAPHICAL DETAIL RELATING THERETO. London : Robert Sayer; John Bowles, and Carington Bowles, 1767. First edition. A handsome eighteenth-century road-atlas, showing the major roads and highways in scroll form, with mileages, local detail and directions to cross-roads, tables, etc. Based on earlier models, but the maps corrected, updated and with the addition of fresh material – not least two Hertfordshire roads (St. Alban’s to Ware, and London to Hitchin) – “The two Roads laid down in this Plate were never before given in any Book of Roads whatever, but were purposely Measured and Engrav’d for this Work” – significant in that Kitchin was to move his base of operations to St. Alban’s the following year. £1,250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34899 – or simply click on the button
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KNAPP, James B. – publisher : ENGLAND : PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. London : James B. Knapp, [ca.1895]. First edition. A pictorial guide – Kent heavily represented, with short chapters on Folkestone, Dover, Deal, Rochester, Chislehurst, Knole, Eltham Palace, Hayes and Keston Common, Downe, Cobham Hall, Hever Castle and Penshurst – with further similar chapters on Twickenham, Kingston-on-Thames, Hampton Court, Ilford, Epping Forest, Alexandra Palace, High Barnet, Lakeland, Huntingdonshire, Tewkesbury Abbey, Ross, Belvoir Castle, Sedgemoor, Dorchester, etc. The eighth volume in a series of "Illustrated Books descriptive of Home and Foreign Travel" – drawing heavily on earlier publications for content and illustration. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31094 – or simply click on the button
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LEE, David C. – editor : THE ILFORD INTELLIGENCE (BOROUGH OF ILFORD RECORD, YEAR BOOK & STREET PLAN) : YEAR 1940. Ilford : Ilford Intelligence, 1940. The first wartime edition of a publication that commenced in 1934 – a complete civic guide to Ilford – administration, agriculture, air defence, art, business, education, emergency services, finance, health, highways, housing, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31180 – or simply click on the button
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LUMSDEN, James, 1753?-1821 – publisher : THE STEAM BOAT COMPANION: AND STRANGER’S GUIDE TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS AND HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND ... Glasgow : James Lumsden & Son, 1820. First edition. A charming companion, both to the west of Scotland and to the early days of steam travel. Even by 1820 there were over tweny steamboats plying the Clyde, and the present work includes details of tours both by water and by road; Edinburgh to Glasgow; Glasgow to Inveraray, to Fort William and on to Skye; from Oban to Mull, Staffa, and Iona; from Glasgow to Campbelton by the Kyles of Bute; to Arran; to Largs, Millport and Ardrossan, and even to Belfast and Liverpool, etc. The land tours take us to Inveraray via Dumbarton, Luss, Oban, etc. SOLD |
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MACDONELL, A.G. (Archibald Gordon), 1895-1941 : MY SCOTLAND. London : Jarrolds, (1937). First edition. Reflections and studies on the character and genius of Scotland from the author of “England, Their England”. In the My Country series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28428 – or simply click on the button
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MALET, Harold Esdaile, 1841-1918 : ANNALS OF THE ROAD : OR, NOTES ON MAIL AND STAGE COACHING IN GREAT BRITAIN. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1876. First edition. A valuable and beautifully illustrated history of coaching – with chapters on most aspects of the history, the coaches and the roads, as well as “some road slang terms”. Illustrated with striking colour-printed plates (finished with hand colour) by Hanhart and woodcuts in the text. As well as Captain Malet’s own work, this edition also collects together for the first time all the “Nimrod” [Charles James Apperley] essays on the subject. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19964 – or simply click on the button
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MASSIE, Alan (Alan Johnstone), 1938- : ILL MET BY GASLIGHT : FIVE EDINBURGH MURDERS. Edinburgh : Paul Harris Publishing, (1980). First edition. Five murders tracing the changing character of Edinburgh. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39146 – or simply click on the button
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MASTERS, James (James Edwin), 1876-1943 : SHAFTESBURY : THE ‘SHASTON’ OF THOMAS HARDY. Shaftesbury : Book in Hand, 1983. Second edition. A delightful portrait of the town, first published by the High House Press in 1932. Wood-engravings by James Masters and John R. Biggs (one of which did not appear in the original edition). With a memoir of James and Beatrice Masters and their High House Press by Biggs, and a checklist of High House titles 1924-1939. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 14782 – or simply click on the button
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MITCHELL, W.S. (William S.) : EAST SUSSEX : A SHELL GUIDE. London : Faber & Faber, (1978). First edition : with a printed label correcting the caption of the frontispiece. A richly illustrated survey and detailed gazetteer in the usual Shell format. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29162 – or simply click on the button
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MOODY, Henry, 1805-1871 – translator : HAMPSHIRE IN 1086. AN EXTENSION OF THE LATIN TEXT, AND AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE DOMESDAY BOOK, AS FAR AS IT RELATES TO HAMPSHIRE ... Winchester : for H. Moody, by John T. Doswell / London : J. Russell Smith, 1862. First edition. A handsome production, offering the full text and a translation of the Hampshire portion of Domesday Book. The work, as was originally intended, is accompanied by the elegant Ordnance Survey lithographic facsimile of the original – “The Domesday Book or the Great Survey of England of William the Conqueror A.D. MLXXXVI. Facsimile of the part relating to Hampshire” (Southampton : 1861). Henry Moody, a former printer, was curator of the Winchester Museum. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 15697 – or simply click on the button
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MOORE, John, 1907-1967 & OTHERS : GLOUCESTERSHIRE. London : Shell-Mex & B.P., (1963). First edition. A guide to the county in the Shell “Shilling Guides” series, with an introductory essay, a gazetteer, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34556 – or simply click on the button
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MOSS, W.G. (William George), -1854 : THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE TOWN AND PORT OF HASTINGS. ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS.
London : W. G. Moss; and sold by Simpkin and Marshall; and West, Hastings, 1824. First edition : the variant in royal 8vo format (it was also issued in a larger and smaller forms). The standard history, although fewer than 150 copies were subscribed for. The text is generally thought to have been written around Moss’s attractive illustrations by William Herbert (1772-1851), the antiquary and librarian. Moss himself, here described as “Draughtsman to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge”, was a London painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy until 1827, but thereafter seems to have found employment as a clerk at the General Post Office. He died at Kennington in 1854. The present copy has interesting additional matter bound in – an additional illustration (see below), a four-page prospectus for the never-published “The History and Antiquities of the Rape of Hastings”, again to be by (or illustrated by) Moss, bearing the plaintive pencilled note “NB Save this leaf this work will not be finished”. This is followed by twenty-two leaves, fourteen of which are blank, the remainder carrying 17pp of manuscript transcription of a document of 1541 relating to Hastings, signed at the end Mr. Chas. Gay 1827. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32846 – or simply click on the button
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PEVSNER, Nikolaus (Sir Nikolaus Bernhard), 1902-1983 : SHROPSHIRE. London : Penguin Books, (1958). First edition : the hardback issue. In the celebrated “Buildings of England” series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32771 – or simply click on the button
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RANDELL, Thomas : GEOGRAPHY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE. ADAPTED TO THE NEW CODE. London : William Collins, Sons & Co. [1872]. First edition. An attractive and unusual Victorian school text, with a folding coloured map of the county, woodcut illustrations and population statistics drawn from the 1871 Census. The “New Code” referred to would appear to be the New Education Code of 1871. In the “Collins County Geographies” series. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18838 – or simply click on the button
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[RICHMOND, SURREY : ACT OF PARLIAMENT] : ANNO DUODECIMO GEORGII. REGIS. CAP. XXXV. AN ACT FOR ENABLING THEIR MAJESTIES TO ENFRANCHISE COPYHOLD LANDS HOLDEN OF THE MANOR OF RICHMOND, IN THE COUNTY OF SURREY, AND FOR ENABLING HIS MAJESTY TO SHUT UP A LANE LEADING FROM RICHMOND GREEN TO THE RIVER THAMES, AND TO SELL AND EXCHANGE CERTAIN LANDS WITHIN THE MANORS OF RICHMOND AND WIMBLETON. London : by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1772. An act relating to some parcels of land in Wimbledon and West Shene, as well as enabling the closing off of a footpath leading to the Thames from “the house now in the occupation of Lewis Shepheard wine-merchant, near Richmond Green”, for which in return the King would pay to have Palace Lane “to be well and sufficiently amended and made commodious” and to add a towpath from there to “two ferries belonging to his Majesty, one called Railhead Ferry, and the other Isleworth Church Ferry”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45950 – or simply click on the button
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RIMMER, Alfred, 1829-1893 : ANCIENT STONE CROSSES OF ENGLAND. London : Virtue & Co., 1875. First edition : the later issue with the “Virtue & Co.” imprint. A charmingly illustrated guide to the town-crosses, market-crosses, Eleanor crosses, roadside crosses, etc. to be found all across England. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35933 – or simply click on the button
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ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (ENGLAND) : AN INVENTORY OF THE HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN HERTFORDSHIRE. London : His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1911. A reprint of the original 1910 edition of the very first of the Royal Commission county surveys, giving a general historical introduction followed by a parish-by-parish inventory of all the known survivals dating from pre-1700. With a glossary, a schedule of the monuments “especially worthy of preservation”, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44720 – or simply click on the button
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SCOTT, Clement W. (Clement William), 1841-1904 : ROUND ABOUT THE ISLANDS : OR, SUNNY SPOTS NEAR HOME. London : Tinsley Brothers, 1874. First edition. Genial rambles and excursions in various parts of the British Isles – with chapters on London after Dark, the Alexandra Palace, The Last Man in London, the Royal Academy, Connemara, Co. Clare, Blarney, Killarney, Scarborough, the Isle of Thanet, Hayling Island, Weston-super-Mare, Goodwood, the Isle of Wight, Sark, etc. Scott was the best-known theatre critic of the period. The startling frontispiece of a flying bat-like journalist is by his brother-in-law, George du Maurier (1834-1896). £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12911 – or simply click on the button
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SOMERVELL, D.C. (David Churchill), 1885-1965 & OTHERS : THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO TONBRIDGE AND DISTRICT. Sevenoaks : Caxton & Holmesdale Press, 1950. First edition. A charming illustrated guide to the town, with chapters by Somervell on the history, the castle, the parish church, the school, etc., with further material on the Medway, the parks, local commerce, places of interest, with an array of advertisements from local business, etc. SOLD |
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SUMNER, Heywood, 1853-1940 : A GUIDE TO THE NEW FOREST. Ringwood : Charles Brown & Son, (1925). Second and best edition : a revised, corrected and expanded version of the original 1924 publication. A most attractive guide in dictionary form, compiled and illustrated by the archaeologist and antiquary Heywood Sumner. With a list of Forest terms, a bibliography, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28696 – or simply click on the button
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THOMAS, Sir William Beach, 1868-1957 : HERTFORDSHIRE. London : Robert Hale, (1950). First edition. A survey of the county consciously intended to record the charms of its villages, towns, houses, rivers, commons, farms, crafts, etc., before the expansion of the satellite towns, garden suburbs, planners, etc. In the admirable Hale "County Books" series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35600 – or simply click on the button
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WALLIS, James, fl.1810-1825 : WALLIS’S NEW POCKET EDITION OF THE ENGLISH COUNTIES OR TRAVELLERS COMPANION IN WHICH ARE CAREFULLY LAID DOWN ALL THE DIRECT & CROSS ROADS, CITIES, TOWNES, VILLAGES, PARKS ... London : J. Wallis, [ca.1814]. First edition : the second state, with the addition of plate numbers to Wallis’s delightfully engraved sequence of maps. A very pretty pocket atlas of the English counties, generally dated to 1810, although surely post-dating Wallis’s larger county atlas of that year and probably datable to about 1812, with the present issue (distinguished by the addition of plate numbers) probably dating from about 1814. £500 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40969 – or simply click on the button
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[WAYLEN, James, 1810-1894] : A HISTORY MILITARY AND MUNICIPAL OF THE ANCIENT BOROUGH OF THE DEVIZES; AND, SUBORDINATELY, OF THE ENTIRE HUNDRED OF POTTERNE AND CANNINGS, IN WHICH IT IS INCLUDED. London : Longman, Brown & Co. / Devizes : Henry Bull, 1859. First edition. An extensive and rather lively account of Devizes – with much on the origins, Matilda and the wars, the Civil War, canal mania, local politics, etc. Authorship is variously ascribed to Henry Bull, the book’s publisher, and to James Waylen – although Waylen’s authorship of “Chronicles of the Devizes” (1839) and a history of Marlborough (1854) with an almost identical title to the present one, would seem conclusive. He was a portrait-painter by profession (born in Devizes) and at least one of the plates is from his own original study. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32795 – or simply click on the button
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WEIGALL, Arthur (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome), 1880-1934 : THE GRAND TOUR OF NORMAN ENGLAND. London : Hodder & Stoughton, [1927]. First edition. The multi-faceted Arthur Weigall – historian, journalist, novelist, screen-writer, lyricist and Egyptologist – takes us on an engaging and richly illustrated motor tour of Norman England, visiting “every important Norman building in every county in England”, providing the basic information, and giving every incentive to follow in his footsteps. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43420 – or simply click on the button
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WYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY : WYE LOCAL HISTORY. Wye : Wye Historical Society, (1978-2000). An incomplete set of this Kent local history magazine – twenty-four issues, comprising vol. i – nos. 1-5; vol. ii – nos. 1-4; vol. iii – nos. 1-6; vol. iv – nos. 1-2; and vol. v – nos. [1]-7. Edited by Harold F.Wickings, Anne-Mary Paterson, etc., and with articles on Romano-British sites, local buildings, Wye in wartime, hop growing, cricket, Aphra Behn, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31090 – or simply click on the button
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