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ADAMS, H Building Constrction
London Cassell Very Good 8vo
"Comprising notes on materials, processes, principles, and practice, including about 2,300 engravings and twelve plates". Gold -embossed cloth, undated put previous owner's name in front dated 1905, pp 568. Covers everything from materials to brickwork, painting, staircases architecture etc. This accompanied by a portfolio containing 24 coloured plates.
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ADAMS, SAMUEL & SARAH The Complete Servant
Sussex Southover Press 1989 1870962036 Reprint Hard Cover Fine Nr Fine 4to
.."first published in 1825..The authors were 50 years in service..they wrote their book as advice to servants in households of the nouveaux riches where there was no tradition of apprenticeship." Black and white illustrations, 179pp inc index. Dw (price clipped).
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ADEN, PAUL Edited and Compiled By The Hosta Book
Kent Christopher Helm 1988 0747000069 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to
"While there is no one 'perfect' genus among the perennials, one could make a case for Hosta. The distinguished contributors to this major work point out an abundance of virtues that make hostas some of the most valuable of garden plants...." Illustrated in colour and black and white, 133pp inc index.
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ALAMICHEL, MARIE-FRANCOISE & BREWER, DEREK The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World
Cambridge DS Brewer 1997 0859915085 First Edition Cloth Fine Not Issued 8vo
Learned articles by different contributors. Contents include: From Written Record to Legend (Claire Vial); Influences of Medieval Thinkg on the Gaelic World (Derick S Thomson); Jan van Vliet (1620-1666) and the Study of Old English in the Low Countries (Kees Dekker); The Early Middle Ages + The Dark Ages + The Heroic Age of England and in English (Eric Stanley); Medieval Mirrors and Later Vanitas Paintings (Florence Bourgne); TheOld Wives' Tale and Dryden (Renate Haas); Modernising the Medieval: Eighteenth-Century Translations of Chaucer (Derek Brewer); The American Middle Ages: Eighteenth-century Saxonist Myth-Making (Laura Kendrick); Coleridge, Scholasticism, and German Idealism (Rene Gallet); The Mists of Avalon: A Confused Assault on Patriarchy (James Noble) The Arthurian Legend in the Cinema: Myth or History ? (Sandra Gorgievski). 166pp.
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ALEXANDER, SIDNEY Marc Chagall
London Cassell 1979 0304304433 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine. Nr Fine. Large 8vo.
Bw photographic plates, 526pp inc index. Dw (light edge-rubbing), previous owner's name on FEP.
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325 |
ALLAN, MEA E. A. Bowles & His Garden at Myddleton House (1865-1954)
London Faber & Faber 1973 0571103065 First Edition Cloth Fine Nr Fine 8vo
A gardening biography "which tells the story of Edward Augustus Bowles, one of our greatest gardeners and most lovable personalities, who regarded plants as individuals and banished botanical misfits and curiositiesto his Lunatic Asylunm under the keepership of a sane-minded magnolia." Colour and black and white plates, 264pp inc index. Dw(small joined tear).
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ALPHERAKY, S The Geese of Europe and Asia
London Rowland Ward 1905 First Edition Very Good +. FW Frohawk
Orignial cloth covers gilt (back strip has been relaid, new endpapers), 24 coloured plates, bw figures, 198pp inc index + plates. Some minor foxing and offsetting associated mainly with the plates. Digital images available on request.
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AMEY, GEOFFREY The Collapse of the Dale Dyke Dam 1864
London Cassell 1974 0304293628 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo
...."an absorbing reconstruction of the whole episode, from the building of the dam to the bitter inquirfy which followed its failure..." Bw photographs, 212pp inc index. Spine leans, dw (price clipped).
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335 |
ANDERSEN Stories from Hans Andersen
London Hodder & Stoughton Very Good Large 8vo. Edmund Dulac
Undated. Blue blind-stamped cloth covers with gilt titles, 14 mounted colour plates with captioned guards (one guard missing), 195pp. Covers edge-rubbed, inscription on ffep otherwise nice bright copy.
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ANDERSEN Contes D'Andersen
Paris Librairie Delagrave 1947 Third Edition Very Good Folio Maurice Berty
Blue buckram covers with illustration and titles in gilt, black and white, 15 colour plates, 191ppmany bw drawings, French text. Backstrip has been relaid, new endpapers. No inscriptions, contents clean and bright on the whole, occasional minor soiling. Digital images available on request.
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337 |
ANDERSEN Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
London The Folio Society 2008 16th Printing Hard Cover Fine W. Heath Robinson
In fine slip case. Gilt decorated cloth covers, colour plates, bw illustrations. 288pp.Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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ANDERSON, JAMES Edited By The New Practical Gardener and Modern Horticulturist
London William Mackenzie First Edition 8vo
Hal dark brown leather binding with gilt decoration and raised bands, marbled endpapers. 27 coloured plates (one bound in upside down), 12 bw plates - 39 in total as required. Several of the coloured plates are double pages. (988pp inc index. The binding is shaken with the front endpapres parted and the last text page is torn without loss. Contents are un foxed. Laid in loose is a note on Royal Horticultural Gardens, Wisley letter paper dated 1925 concerning the treatment of mildew on delphiniums. There is also a letter from John A Sambrook, the tennis court specialist dated 1909. Heavy book , please enquire about shipping costs.
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ANDERSON, VERILY The Northrepps Grandchildren
Lavenham Mallard Reprints 1983 0904623971 Soft Cover Fine 8vo
"To Verily Anderson and lively tribe of visiting grandchildren, the family home at Northrepps in Norfolk was a place of special enchantment. Generation after generation had inhabited the same nurseries, handled the same toys, discovered the same outdoor delights. As she grew up, the author's ancestors, Buxtons, Barclays, Gurneys, sorted themselves out on the family tree and their personalities and pattern of life at Northrepps became clear and plain." 256pp inc index. Ownership name on half title.
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ANDREWS, LANCELOT Preces Privatae Graece & Latine
Oxford E Theatro Sheldoniano 1675 12mo
Lancelot Adrews (1565 - 1626), Bishop of Winchester 1605 -26 was one of the translators of the King James Bible. The orginal 'Manual for Private Devotions' was originally written wholly in Greek. It was not published until 22 years after his death. This edition is written in Greek with Latin translation on the page opposite. Later diced calf with marbled endpapers, engraved portrait, engraved vignette of the Sheldonian on title page, 359pp. The three endpapers are loose as is the portrait, otherwise the binding is firm. Contents browned. There is an armorial book plate on the reverse of the loose portrait (John Washer of Lincoln's Inn Esq).
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350 |
ANDREWS, WILLIAM Bygone Norfolk
London William Andrews Edited By 1898 First Edition Very Good 8vo
Illustrated anthology, 290pp inc index + publisher's list. Blue buckram covers with bevelled edges, gilt titles and decoration, TEG, prelims browned and binding a little shaken.
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ANDREWS, WILLIAM Bygone Norfolk
London William Andrews Edited By 1898 First Edition Hardcover Very Good 8vo
Illustrated anthology, 290pp inc index + publisher's list. Blue buckram covers with bevelled edges, gilt titles and decoration, TEG, prelims browned and binding a little shaken.
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352 |
ANDREWS, WILLIAM Bygone Norfolk
London William Andrews Edited By 1898 First Edition Hardcover Good 8vo
Illustrated anthology, 290pp inc index + publisher's list. Blue buckram covers with bevelled edges, gilt titles and decoration, TEG, prelims browned and binding a little shaken. Covers worn
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353 |
ANON Revival of the Greek and Roman Empires: Being Observations on the Prophet Daniel's Metallick Image....
The Philanthropic Society 1810 First Edition 8vo
..(title cont.) ..the Interpretation of whose form was to make known that which was to Happen in the Latter Days; also and Investigation of those parts of The Apocalypse which appear to to be derived from, and illustrative of, the Prophecies of Daniel and The Ancient types of the the Old Testament many of which were, from the first, Indicative of the Present Opening Signs of the Times. Two volumes (conjtinuously paginated, bound in one. Modern tan buckram with brown spine label, gilt, modern endpapers,575pp. Title page and errata leaf of Volume II bound at end. Tight and crisp. One leaf has a tear with some loss of text.
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ANON Diesel Fuels and Lubricants
London Esso 1960 First Edition Good No Jacket 4to
Main sections include: Diesel engine design and development; Fuels, combustion and cylinder wear; Principles and practive of lubrication; Handling and testing fuels and lubricants. Blue cloth covers, black and white photographs, figures and diagrams, (some in colour), folding chart, temperature conversion tables, 143pp inc index. Covers are stained, contents clean.
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Ansell, David Military Motor Cycles
London Batsford. 1986 0713438371 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Nr Fine. Oblong 4to
Bw illus, 102 models illustrated in black and white and described + specifications of 300 others. Dw (price clipped).
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362 |
ARGYLL, The Duke of IONA
London Strahan 1871 Second Edition Buckram Very Good 12mo
Bw illustrations, 141pp. Ends of spine frayed, uneven fading and cracked hinges (internal). There is a lengthy inscription dated 1872 on the half title.
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ARMFIELD, CONSTANCE The Flower Book
London Chatto & Windus 1910 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good 8vo Maxwell Armfield
Colour plates, 152pp. Loverly bright copy internally , back strip has been professionally relaid, prize label on ffep verso.
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ARMSTRONG, EDWARD A The Wren
London Collins 1955 First Edition Cloth Very Good . Poor 8vo
With 20 bw photos,41 drawings and diagrams, 312pp inc index. Some light fading to spine. The spine of the dust wrapper is missing and has been replaced with cartridge paper.
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369 |
ARNOLD, BRUCE Jack Yeats
Yale University Press 1998 0300075499 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to
"This book explores Yeats' friendships with John Masefield, John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett, and others; his self-identification with his chosen country; and his struggle against indifference and mockery. It provides a compelling portrait of the complex and enigmatic artist whose reputaion and artistic vision have become increasingly admired in the years since his death. " Bw illustrations, 356 + colour plates, index and notes.
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ARNOLD, MATTHEW Poems
London Macmillan 1885 First Thus Very Good 8vo
3 volumes (unnumbered): Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets; Lyric and Elegiac Poems; Dramatic and Later Poems (1888). Blue cloth with gilt bishop's crest on back and front covers.pp272;256;209 + publisher's lists in each case. Covers are worn at extremities, corners bumped, top page edges dusty but contents bright.
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AUCTION CATALOGUE Benacre Hall Suffolk
London Sotheby's 2000 First Edition Card Cover Very Good 4to
Lavishly illustrated auction catlogue for the three day sale of the property of Sir John Gooch, 12 Bt. 474pp. Some pencil annotations in the library section, corners of covers creased.
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AUSTEN, JANE The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen Six Volumes
Oxford University Press 1989 019254707 Reprint Cloth Nr Fine Fine 12 Mo
The text based on collation of the early editions by R W Chapman with notes indexes and illustrations from contemporary sources. A little pushed at ends of spines otherwise a lovely set, dws not price clipped, no inscriptions or other markings. Multiple volumes which will require extra shipping.
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390 |
AUSTEN, JANE The Works Seven Volumes
London The Folio Society 1996 13th Printing Fine Joan Hassall
Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Emma; Persuasion and the Shorter Works. Bw illustrations, in plain slip case.
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AUSTEN, JANE Mansfield Park 2 Volumes
London Dent 1898 Good 12mo H M Brock
Volumes VI & VII of a ten volume set of Jane Austen's Novels edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. Decorated cloth with gilt titles, TEG, silk marker, gilt design to endpapers with blue monogram similar title pages, 12 tissue guarded colour plates. Rebacked preserving the original backstrips. There is some staining/darkening to covers and browning/foxing mainly to page edges and prelims.
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AUSTIN, ALFRED The Poetry of the Period
London Richard Bentley 1870 First Edition 8vo
Full tree calf with gilt decoration, raised bands and spine label. Marbled page edges and endpapers, The essays are about: Tennyson, Browning, Swinburne, Matthew Arnold, Morris and the Catholic Poets. There are two further essays: "The Poetry of the Future" and "Supernatural Poetry". 294pp. Hand written prize dedication on ffep verso.
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BACON, FRANCIS Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil
London Macmillan 1891 8vo
Golden Treasury Series, a reprint of the third edition limited to 250 copies with notes and glossarial index by Waldis Wright.. Full vellum, title page with engraved vignette, 388pp. A nice tight copy with some minor foxing to prelims and page edges.Book plate of Edward William Fordham (author of "Songs of the Specials".
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BACON, FRANCIS An Essay on Gardens
1912 Very Good 16mo
Full green leather,gilt titles hand made paper, TEG. Title page in red and black which reads "An Essay on Gardens By Francis Bacon written by C. M. D. 1912, decorated border. printed in italic style with small decoration at end, pp 41.Some rubbing along spine.
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