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London : John Murray, (1952). First edition. Betjeman on Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Leeds, London Railway Stations, the Isle of Man, Padstow, Sidmouth, Weymouth, the Isle of Wight, and many other places, as well as on Nonconformist Architecture, Victorian Architecture. Numerous illustrations – many by John Piper.
Foolscap 4to (23cm). (xii),244pp. Numerous illustrations, including a folding panorama of Cheltenham by Piper. Original cream canvas, blocked and lettered in blue; top edge pink; a very good, clean and sound copy in the striking Piper dust-jacket – the jacket also very good.

£125

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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.
Foolscap 8vo (17cm). vi,138,40pp. Two folding maps. Original cloth; lightly rubbed and a touch dulled; one map slightly torn, but overall a very good copy. With the contemporary ownership inscription of H. H. Haddon.

£40

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [16]pp (paginated 97-112). Photo illustrations. Double-page map. Original stapled wrappers – a colour-printed pictorial design by Barbara Jones; a few faint marks, but a very good copy.

£15

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (xvi),237,[iv],[1]pp. Illustrations almost throughout. Original pictorial red cloth gilt; just a touch dulled, a touch shaken, but a very good copy.

£100

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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.
Crown 16mo (12cm). Pagination irregular, but [104]pp. Folding maps of London, and England and Wales; double-page plans of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester; ten regional maps with hand colour, mostly double-page; a diagram of the gradients of the major lines, etc. Original cloth, with green and gilt label on upper cover; some minor wear; a substantial block of the text loose and detached; some minor marks, splits and small flaws, but internally clean and good copy of a scarce and fragile survival.

£400

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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”.
Crown 8vo (183 x 112mm). [vi],[16],[iv]pp. Engraved title and preliminary leaves. Forty-three engraved maps, one folding, with original hand colour. Bound in contemporary polished calf, now neatly rebacked to style, with raised bands, gilt rules, and a red label; new endleaves; a few very minor marks; small repair to the margin of the folding map, but a very good, fresh and clean example.

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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.
Crown 4to (26cm). (xlv),(238)pp. Sixteen delightful colour plates and eighty-seven drawings by Cooper. Endpaper maps. Original cobalt blue cloth, blocked in red and lettered in gilt and red; top edge blue; a very good copy indeed – bright, clean and sound – in the original Cooper wrap-around dust-jacket – the jacket price-clipped, just faintly sunned, and with a single short nick, but still very good. Neat contemporary 1960 gift inscription to Freda from Gerald.

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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.
Medium 8vo (24cm). xii,274pp. Eight plates. Four photogravures. Two colour plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt; some slight spotting, mainly of edges; endpapers a little tanned, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original dust-jacket – just lightly worn and a little tanned. Neat contemporary (1912) inscription of A. G. D. Moger of Bath – Alfred George Derwent Moger (1843-1919), the City Treasurer – on front free endpaper.

£50

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 238,[ii]pp. Ninety-seven photographs. Original boards; a very good copy in the original Roy Sanford dust-jacket – just lightly used, but also very good. Although not so marked, this copy comes from the library of the book’s editor, John Foster White (1921-1997), who was responsible for collecting and choosing the illustrations.

£25

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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).
Demy 8vo (23cm). (244)pp. Over 100 photographs. Original cloth; a very good copy in the original Roy Sanford dust-jacket – the jacket lightly worn, a touch dulled and a little marked.

£25

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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.
Seven volumes. Foolscap 8vo (157 x 99mm). 336 engraved plates. Head and tailpieces. Bound in a stylish nineteenth-century half tan calf, banded and richly gilt; burgundy labels; marbled sides; sprinkled edges; some minor rubbing; a few faint signs of age and use; some browning and spotting, but a very pretty set. Ownership inscription of J. Atkins in each volume.

£500

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London : Phaidon Press, (1975). First edition. A fine and well-illustrated survey of landscape painting in the British Isles – from Rubens to Victor Pasmore.
Post 4to (26cm). 208pp. Illustrations throughout, some in colour. Original boards; top edge a touch dusty; mild tanning of outer margins, but otherwise very good in the dust-jacket.

£25

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Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1973). First edition. An absorbing guide, arranged by county and town, tabulating who lived and died where.
Crown 4to (26cm). 216pp. Maps by Alan G. Hodgkiss. Original boards; a few faint marks, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

£20

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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.
Demy 4to (29cm). viii,328pp. Twenty-nine illustrations. Original boards; a very good copy in the pictorial dust-jacket, also very good.

£40

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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”.
Royal 8vo (26cm). 272pp. Plates and around 200 illustrations. Original boards; endpapers a little tanned; a few edge-spots, but still a very good copy in the dust-jacket – just faintly tanned, but also very good.

£20

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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.
Super royal 8vo (27cm). (xii),(187)-487,[i],76pp. Folding map of the county by Francis Paul Becker & Son. Original red cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, by Leighton, Son & Hodge, with their stamp; an indifferent copy – the case worn, torn, and somewhat marked and faded; internally some tanning and mild spotting, with some chips and creases; rear endpaper cracking, but a serviceable working copy of an uncommon survival. Contemporary (1863) ownership inscription of John Wilson Wilson, and later one of John Morris.

£50

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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.
Foolscap 4to (23cm). 144p. Numerous wood-engraved illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, blocked in silver, gilt and black; a touch rubbed and just slightly darkened; endpapers a little tanned; some slight spotting of edges, but overall a very good copy.

£40

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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.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 82pp. Folding maps. Original stapled wrappers; some marks; last leaf slightly torn at inner margin, but a good copy of an ephemeral production.

£25

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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.
Slim royal 12mo (21cm), designed to fit the pocket. 114pp. Large folding hand-coloured map of the Western Highlands, with an inset of the Clyde, by William Home Lizars. Seven smaller folding maps of the roads. Original black sheep, ruled and blocked in gilt; some light wear and slight splitting; maps with some offsetting and minor nicks, splits, and short tears; text a little damp stained in places, with some softening, but a good copy of an evidently well-used and well-regarded production. With the contemporary (1821) ownership inscriptions of Mr and Mrs A. Slater with notes of their passing through Greenock, Campbelton, and Glasgow in the autumn of 1821 and a subsequent visit in 1835. The Slaters have annotated and even extended the main map northwards to Tobermory, as well as annotating the text in a number of places, specifically regarding improvements made by 1835.

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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.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (280),[iv]pp. Portrait frontispiece. Plates. Original jade cloth, lettered across spine in white; some spotting of edges, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket – a monochrome photographic design, lettered in green and black – lightly worn.

£20

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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.
Foolscap 4to (24cm). (xvi),(404)pp. Errata slip. Coloured frontispiece and nine coloured plates. Woodcuts in text. Original pictorial cloth gilt; very lightly worn at spine tips and a little sunned; a few minor internal marks, nicks and slight creases, but a very good copy.

£250

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Edinburgh : Paul Harris Publishing, (1980). First edition. Five murders tracing the changing character of Edinburgh.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [viii],(182),[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good in the dust-jacket – lightly sunned, but also very good.

£20

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [48]pp. Original boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good copy in a just slightly nicked dust-jacket.

£20

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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.
Crown 4to (24cm). 192pp. Coloured map. Photo illustrations throughout. Original cloth; a very good copy in a price-clipped dust-jacket.

£25

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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.
Two volumes. Imperial 4to (38cm). [ii],66; [vi],[1],xxxiv,[1]pp. Original cloth gilt; all edges red; neatly if functionally rebacked, endpapers reinforced, but a very good set. Tipped in is a flyer for similar county productions.

£100

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [16]pp (paginated 193-208). Photo illustrations. Double-page map. Original stapled wrappers – a colour-printed pictorial design by David Gentleman; a couple of faint signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

£15

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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.
Royal 8vo (241 x 153mm). [2],xiv,206,[ii]p. Folding town plan of Hastings. Etched facsimile of a page from Domesday in two colours. Eighteen engraved plates, many in proof state, engraved by a clutch of distinguished engravers from Moss’s designs. And the additional illustration – a small stipple-engraved portrait of Sir Cloudesley Shovell by Penny mounted out to fit the page area and inserted facing p.150. Contemporary half calf, banded and gilt; marbled sides, edges and endpapers; the binding neatly restored and refurbished; some wear and rubbing to edges; occasional slight spotting and minor creasing, but overall a very good copy. Later inscriptions to preliminary and final blanks.

£250

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London : Penguin Books, (1958). First edition : the hardback issue. In the celebrated “Buildings of England” series.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 368pp. Plates. Map. Original cloth; very good in a just lightly used dust-jacket.

£25

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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.
Foolscap 8vo (17cm). 32pp. Folding coloured map. Original wrappers; a little worn and slightly dusty, but a very good example of a scarce, fragile and ephemeral production.

£25

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(160)pp. Seventy-two wood-engraved illustrations. Original pictorial cloth gilt; just a hint of wear; slight nick and faint crease to front endpaper, but a very good, sound and bright copy. With the contemporary blind-stamp of the distinguished bookseller and publisher, Charles Elkin Mathews (1851-1921), then at his first business address – the antiquarian and general bookshop by the cathedral in Exeter which he opened in 1884.

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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.
Demy 4to (29cm). xvi,(312)pp. Plates. Folding map & plans. Original cloth; a few ninor signs of age and use; some spotting of edges, but a very good copy.

£50

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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).
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(356) + [iv]pp advertisements. Frontispiece and extra pictorial title by Du Maurier. Original decorative cloth over bevelled boards; some very slight wear, a few spots, a little shaken, but a very good copy of a scarce book.

£50

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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.
Crown 8vo (19cm). xx,71,xxi-xxxii pp. Illustrations. Photographs, Maps. Original pictorial wrappers; lightly rubbed; a few slight creases, but a very good copy.

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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.
Crown 8vo. (96),[viii]pp. Double-page map and full-page illustrations by the author. Rebound in a neat contemporary binder’s cloth, retaining the decorative upper panel of the original wrappers; faint spine crease; rear endpaper slightly creased; a few slight edge-spots, but a very good copy.

£40

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). viii,270,[ii]pp. Plates. Folding map. Original cloth gilt; a very good copy in a very lightly worn and slightly chipped dust-jacket. Dated (1950) ownership inscription of Miss J. B. Hughes.

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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.
Pott 4to (146 x 109mm). Engraved title-page, contents page, general map of England and Wales, forty-two county maps (one – Yorkshire – double-page), two regional maps of North and South Wales, and a smaller map of the Isle of Wight – all with original hand colour. Original publisher’s half sheep, with the publisher’s leather label on upper board; some minor wear and marking, with slight splitting; a little shaken and slightly loose; short split to double-page map; one map (Wiltshire) deftly attached or re-attached by two old metal pins, and possibly supplied from another copy, but overall an attractive example of a charming pocket companion. Contemporary (1818) ownership inscription of the untraced Hannah Wessely or Wepely, with the additional message “Forget me Not”.

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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.
Demy 8vo (214 x 136mm). [iv],602pp. Engraved plates. Illustrations. Bound in a neat nineteenth-century half-calf , marbled sides, red edges; matching marbled endpapers; lightly rubbed and slightly scuffed; frontispiece cut round, mounted and laid-down; occasional spotting, but overall a very good copy. Ownership inscriptions of Hester Harding (1805?-1884), widow of a farmer of Steeple Ashton (1881), and W. J. Kyte of Cardiff.

£125

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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.
Demy 8vo (24cm). 352pp. Numerous photo illustrations on eighty-eight plates. Original cloth; some very minor wear to extremities; slight tanning to outer leaves, but overall a very good copy.

£25

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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.
Twenty-four issues. Foolscap 4to (22cm). Each issue between 12 and 36pp. Original stapled wrappers; very good.

£50

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