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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey. With Several Copper Plates.

By: FIDDES, Richard:

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, John Barber, 1724:

Seller ID: 82884

Tall large hardback, approx 14 x 9 inches. Full calf leather binding. Decorative gilt paneled boards, raised and gilt banded spine, with dark green leather spine label lettered in gilt. Red speckled page edges, plain endpapers. In very good condition. Extremities rubbed with chips to corners, rubbing to boards, some heavy surface rubbing to rear side. Professional repairs to spin/hinges, small chips to spine ends. Some minor darkening to edges of endpapers else clean, a couple of minor handling marks to title page, bookplate pasted to rear side of title page “Jacob Des Bouverie Esq.̶...
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Who’s Who in the Middle Ages. From the Collapse of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance.

By: FINES, JOHN:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books. New York. 1995:

Seller ID: 63846

Tall 8vo. In black hard card covers with silver to black cloth spine. With dustwrapper. In fine condition with fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 218pp. A dictionary of biography, each entry, in reality a short essay, offers not only an understanding of an individual, but insights into the process of change at work during this period. From Abelard to John Wyclif.
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Iain Macleod. Introduction by Lord Boyle of Handsworth. Signed copy.

By: FISHER, NIGEL:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Andre Deutsch. London. 1973 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 55978

In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. Orange endpapers. Presentation inscription in red ink plus author’s signature on half title page which also has small portrait silhouette of the subject. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed around edges. Not price clipped). Corners and bottom of spine slightly bumped. Front top edge slightly faded. 352pp. With 11 b/w photographs 2 cartoons and a map. Biography of the Tory politician. Iain Macleod was resposible for decolonisation of many of the ...
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Daniel De Foe and Charles Churchill. Warren Hastings, Sir Roger De Coverly, Ferdinand I and Maximilian II of Austria. Five Volumes in One.

By: FORSTER, John: Macaulay, T.B.: RANKE, Prof. Leopold: GORDON, Lady Duff:

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851-5:

Seller ID: 83641

Hardback, 7 x 5 inches. Full calf leather binding with decorative gilt paneled boards, raised banding and extensive gilt decoration to spine, with red leather label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing and small handling marks to boards, small rubbing to bottom of spine. Endpapers clean, neat penned inscription to top of title page “A. Sanders, 1855.” Some minor darkening to pages of “Roger De Coverley.” Else inside pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 149, 118, 106, 144 & 1...
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Lord Stuart of Rothesay. The Life and Times of Lord Stuart de Rothesay of Highcliffe Castle 1779-1845. SIGNED COPY.

By: FRANKLIN, ROBERT:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Images. Worcester. 1993 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83527

Hardback, 9.5 x 6 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; some minor shelf rubbing. Not price clipped). Cloth clean, Authors signature to title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 303pp. Illustrated with 15 b&w plates. Life and times of a nineteenth century diplomat.
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The Steam-Boat. By The Author of Annals of the Parish; Ayrshire Legatees; Sir Andrew Wylie; and the Provost.

By: GALT, JOHN:

Price: £80.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & T. Cadell, 1822 1st:

Seller ID: 84082

Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. Quarter bound fine leather binding, polished black calf leather to spine and corners, with marbled paper boards edged in gilt. Gilt lettering to leather spine label, with full gilt decoration to spine. Speckled page edges, plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges of spine and corners. Some light rubbing to faces of boards. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Inside pages with a few odd foxing spots, small tear to p285. Else overall clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clen and tight copy. 359pp. A tale of “jaunts and travels̶...
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Mary Davies and the Manor of Ebury. With Eight Photogravure Plates and Thirty-One Other Illustrations. In Two Volumes.

By: GATTY, Charles T.:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Cassell and Company Ltd. 1921 1st:

Seller ID: 84227

Two Volumes. Hardback, tall 8vo, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Navy blue cloth with gilt crest vignette to fronts and gilt lettering and crests to spines. In very good conditions. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spines, top corners on vol.2 slightly bumped, with small bump/split to cloth at bottom rear corner of spine. Some minor darkening to endpapers with a couple of minor spots to prelims, a couple of minor negligible spots to inside pages else pages very clean and tight throughout. Else very good clean and tight copies. 294 & 285pp. Illustrated with 8 B&W Photogravure Plates, and 31 ...
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Percy: Prelate and Poet With a Preface by Sir George Douglas, Bart. And 8 Illustrations.

By: GAUSSEN, Alice C. C.:

Price: £28.00

Publisher: London, Smith Elder & Co., 1908 1st:

Seller ID: 80658

Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and vignette to front. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners, bump to top front corner. Some slight darkening to spine. Some light foxing to endpapers and prelims. Frontis engraving with some foxing to edges. Some light foxing to pages else a very clean and tight copy. 324pp. Illustrated with 8 b&w plates including an engraved frontis.
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Jonathan Swift.

By: GLENDINNING, VICTORIA:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Hutchinson. London. 1998 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73752

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Small indentations to back edge of spine. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 324pp. With b/w illustrations. The author examines the main events and relationships in Swift’s life.
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The Diaries of Absalom Watkin. A Manchester Man 1787-1861. SIGNED COPY.

By: GOFFIN, Magdalen:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Alan Sutton, 1993 1st edition:

Seller ID: 84008

Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (DW spine faded, minor mark to bottom end. In protective sleeve. Not price clipped.) Cloth clean and smart. Authors dedicatory inscription to front endpaper “To David with best wishes and in memory of a long family friendship, Magdalen Goffin, Silcocks, 12.5.07.” Inside pages clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 390pp. 15 B&W illustrations. Watkin helped to write the famous Peterloo Protest and ...
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Stella Benson. A Biography.

By: GRANT, Joy;

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Macmillan London. 1987 1st edition:

Seller ID: 74573

Size approx 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In green cloth with gilt to spine. With original pictorial glossy dustwrapper. In very good condition. Pages slightly darkened/faded. Dustwrapper very good. Minor tear to bottom of rear endpaper. 339pp. With b&w illustrations.
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A Labrador Doctor. The Autobiography. Revised Popular Edition.

By: GRENFELL, Sir Wilfred Thomason:

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London. Hodder & Stoughton 1930 repr:

Seller ID: 76805

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 6 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Rubbing to edges and corners and ends of spine. Corners bumped, and slightly nicked. Spine faded, some minor marks to boards. Neat inscription to front endpaper, with two colour illustrations of Grenfell tipped in. Endpapers slightly darkened. Some foxing to title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 333pp. 4 b&w photo plates.
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Lloyd George. The People’s Champion. 1902-1911.

By: GRIGG, JOHN:

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Eyre Methuen. 1978 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73668

Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small marks to spine. Slightly rubbed along top edge. Old small label to front fly leaf. Not price clipped). Small stain to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 391pp. With b/w photographs. Second part of a biography of David Lloyd George. This volume covers his time in the Liberal government when he produced the ‘People’s Budget’ in 1909. With many of his speeches, and coverage of his personal life.
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Lloyd George. From Peace to War. 1912-1916.

By: GRIGG, JOHN:

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Methuen. 1985 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73669

Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly rubbed at top end with small marks. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 527pp. With b/w photographs. The third volume of the biography of David Lloyd George. This volume covers the turbulent period of financial scandal, personal relationships, Irish Home Rule, and the outbreak of the Great War, during which he became Prime Minister. A ‘warts and all’ biography up to the point of Lloyd George’s becoming PM ...
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Bonnet and Shawl. An Album.

By: GUEDALLA, PHILIP:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton. 1929.:

Seller ID: 73852

Size 6.0 x 9.0 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded and bumped at top end. boards part faded. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 204pp. With b/w portrait plates. Contents: REAL: Jane Welsh Carlyle/ Catherine Gladstone/ Mary Arnold/ Mary Anne Disraeli/ Emily Tennyson/ Emily Palmerston. IDEAL: Lady Muriel James/ Sophia Swinburne/ Julie de Goncourt.
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Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy. Teach Yourself History. General editor A.L.Rowse.

By: HALE, J.R.:

Price: £2.00

Publisher: The English Universities Press Ltd. 1961 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 74050

Size 4.5 x 7.0 inches. In cream cloth covers with black lettering to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly darkened. Ink marks to front, back and fly leaves. Not price clipped). Ink marks in margins. Red ink notes to back endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 244pp. With maps. The life and work of Nicolo Machiavelli.
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Memoirs of Count Grammont. Translated by Horace Walpole. Wood Engravings by Wilfred Jones. Limited edition.

By: HAMILTON, Count ANTHONY:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London. John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. 1928.:

Seller ID: 73099

Size 6.75 x 9.75 inches. In maroon cloth boards with gilt to grey cloth spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 230pp. With wood engraved plates with titled tissue guards. Philibert, Comte de Grammont (1621 – 31 January 1707), was a French nobleman. This biography was written by Antoine Hamilton, his brother-in-law. He spent some time at the Court of King Charles II, where he married his wife and the most interesting part of the book contains an account of that king’s licentious court. With biographic...
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Image for An Anthology: Extracts from Letters written by Miss May Chesshire, a West Country Poet, to Llewelyn Powys. Selected and Arranged by Diana Harding. Limited Edition.

An Anthology: Extracts from Letters written by Miss May Chesshire, a West Country Poet, to Llewelyn Powys. Selected and Arranged by Diana Harding. Limited Edition.

By: HARDING, Diana: CHESSHIRE, Miss May: POWYS, Llewelyn:

Price: £28.00

Publisher: Sussex, Stuart Guthrie, 1937 1st Ltd Ed. 250 Copies.:

Seller ID: 84203

Tall hardback, approx 10 x 8 inches. Half bound with light brown cloth to spine and light blue paper covered boards with paper title label to front. In plain protective dustwrapper. In very good condition. A couple of minor marks to cover else clean and smart; minor bump to bottom corner, minor darkening to top corner, some darkening to spine. Plain brown thin paper dustwrapper with chips and small tears to corners and ends of spine. Inside pages clean and tight, no penned inscriptions. One minor spot to bottom corner of pages up to p8. Some minor light spots between p20-21. Else a very good c...
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The Hardys of Barbon And some Other Westmorland Statesmen: Their Kith, Kin and Childer. With Association Letter.

By: HARDY, Charles Frederick:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Constable and Company, 1913 1st:

Seller ID: 80659

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Some slight rubbing to corners of boards. Endpapers partially darkened. Neat inscription to front “Given to me by Norman Hardy, October 1934, R.B. Bengers.” With accompanying signed letter and postmarked envelope. A couple of tiny handling marks else a very clean and tight copy. 176pp. Illustrated with 8 B&W plates, including map and plan.
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The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley for 1862-1902. Camden Fifth Series, volume 9.

By: HAWKINS, ANGUS / POWELL, JOHN (eds):

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Royal Historical Society. 1997 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 67335

Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. In near fine condition. A very clean and tight copy. 530pp. Extracts from the journal of John Wodehouse the English Liberal politician.
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