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A.R.: Designs for Church Embroidery. Letterpress by Alethea Wiel.
Chapman and Hall. London. 1894 1st edition.
4to. In pictorial bevelled green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Coloured thread samples to front endpaper. 30 examples as full page line drawings, most with text accompanying in Gothic script. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Front slightly rubbed. Corners slightly bumped. Front endpaper slightly marked. Else a very clean and tight copy. Suggestions for church embroidery with colour samples by Liberty.
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60.00 GBP
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LEIGH, R.A.AUSTEN: Eton v. Winchester. 1826-1908.
Spottiswoode and Company, Limited.. London. 1909 1st edition.
Sm. 8vo. In blue stiff card covers with black lettering and coats of arms to front. 82pp. With pictorial advertisements. In very good condition. Spine split at back edge. Pencil inscriptions to front enndpapers. A couple of slight separations at gatherings. Else a clean and tight copy. The scores of all the cricket matches played between Eton and Winchester, between 1826 and 1908.
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20.00 GBP
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MOXON, P.R.A.: Gundogs: Training and Field Trials. With 36 illustrations.
Popular Dogs. London. 1960
8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and gilt dog to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. 232pp. With 36 b/w photo plates. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; handling marks. Slightly creased around edges with small chips and tears. Not price clipped). Slight foxing to endpapers. Owner’s incription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. A practical book on working gundogs.
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12.00 GBP
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LITHGOW, R.A.DOUGLAS: Heredity: A Study; with special reference to disease.
London. Bailliere, Tindall and Cox. 1889 1st edition.
8vo. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. 252pp. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded and bumped at top end. Part fading to boards.Owner’s bookplate to front endpaper with neat inscription to half title, dated 1889. Else a clean and tight copy. Intended as an introduction to the study of heredity, the author presents wnat he believes to be "the first systematic effort to trace the influence of Heredity in all the main diseases which afflict humanity". From the library of Alfred Pope, one of the founders of the Eldridge Pope Brewery, friend of Thomas Hardy and twice Mayor of Dorchester.
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25.00 GBP
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MARRIOTT, SIR JOHN A.R.: Queen Victoria and Her Ministers. The Victorian Era from a New Angle.
John Murray. London. 1933 1st.edition
Tall 8vo. In purple cloth covers with gilt to white title label on spine. With dustwrapper. 236pp. With b/w plate illustrations. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Small marks to covers. Cigarette card of Queen Victoria pasted on front flyleaf. Clipped). Mild foxing to edges, affecting pages inside. Owner’s inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. The author illustrates the practical working of the monarchy by a series of sketches of the ten Prime Ministers of the reign, and a disclosure of the relations between them and the Queen.
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15.00 GBP
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PALMER, SUTTON (ill.) / HOPE MONCRIEFF, A.R: Surrey.
A.& C.BLACK 1912.
Tall 8vo. Blue pict.cloth lettered in gold on spine, and in yellow on fr.cover. 75 coloured plates. Map. 252 pp. Top edge gilt. Small half circle of fading on back cover, else nice bright copy. Lower edge of 2 plates a bit darkened and slightly creased. On the inside back cover there is a tiny bit of paper rubbed off and 2 marks. Otherwise very clean inside. Overall very good.
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40.00 GBP
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WALKER, R.A.: The Best of Beardsley. Collected and edited by R.A.Walker.
Spring Books. London. 1948 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In yellow cloth covers with black lettering and decor to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. 22pp text. With 134 b/w plates. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; handling marks. Not price clipped). Small marks to front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. Published for the half centenary of Beardsley’s death, this book contains the best reproductions of the best of his work, with an introductory essay.
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30.00 GBP
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GLEN, A.R. (assisted by N.A.C.Croft): Under the Pole Star. The Oxford University Arctic Expedition 1935-6.
Methuen Publishers London. 1937 1st. edition.
Tall 8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 365pp. With 48 plates, 22 maps & diagrams (incl.fold.map at the back). In very good condition with good dustwrapper, (dw; spine slightly darkened with old repairs with sticky tape. Small tears and chips to edges. Foxing to front. Owner’s bookplate and signature to front endpapers. Mild foxing to edges affecting occasional pages throughout. Else a clean and tight copy. Narrative of an expedition of ten members under Glen to Northeast Land, a region of Spitsbergen, July 1935-1936. The aim of the expedition was to investigate the weather conditions on inland ice, and problems connected with the age, thickness and physical condition of the icecap. Tells of the difficulties of surviving as the camp slowly sinks under the ice. With the rarely seen dust jacket.
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115.00 GBP
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