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ANON: A Bridal Gift by the Editor of A Parting Gift to a
Christian Friend.
Liverpool: D. Marples. London: Hamilton, Adams [1847].
Additional title printed in gold and colours, other leaves in gold &
colours, decorative variously coloured page borders throughout. 8vo,
pp.x:187, publisher's full tan morocco, bevelled boards blocked in
gilt, wide inner gilt dentelles, pink silk endpapers; binding now
soiled and marked, joint cracked between endpaper and half-title.
The 7th edition but the first edition to be so "embellished".
Free from inscriptions. Chapters include "Bridal Thoughts" & "Home
Duties and Pleasures".
Quote Item No. 10610
Price: £45.00
ANON: The Closet of Beauty or, An Old Way to Procure New
Loveliness, By N.H. 1694.
Fisher's Pond: Grayhound Press, 1925.
One of a limited edition of 104 copies printed. 8vo, pp.32,
original wrappers, sewn as issued.
Being extracts from "The Ladies Dictionary" printed by John
Dunton in 1694. Powders, perfumes, oils, essences &
sweet waters, "How to Beautifie and Adorn the Brows of the Eyes",
"Apparel or The Ladies Dressing-Room", etc.
Quote Item No. 284
Price: £15.00
ANON: Tombstones in the Graveyard of Loughborough Parish
Church of All Saints.
Loughborough: Loughborough and District Archaeological
Society, 1989.
First edition. Black & white illustrations. Folio,
pp.[4]:191, original paper-wrappers; very faint smudgy marks
to cover; a number of neat red ink annotations to text;
ink name and white address sticker to title page; generally
very good.
Quote Item No. 8149
Price: £30.00
BEDFORD, W.K.R and COLLINS, W.E.W: Annals of the Free Foresters from
1856 to the Present Day.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood, 1895.
First edition. Portraits and plates. Large 8vo, pp.xiii:(1):401,
original green cloth blocked in gilt; small white mark on
upper cover else very good.
Quote Item No. 4348
Price: £22.00
CLARET,
G.: The Whole of Craft Free-Masonry.
Fourth Edition with very considerable
improvements.
London: G. Claret, Printer, n.d. ca. 1850.
Square 12mo, pp.277:ii, contemporary full black grained calf, sides
with masonic corner ornaments in gilt and decorative gilt border.
Spine with gilt masonic ornaments. Slight cracking to inner joint
but very firm, endpapers browned; generally good. Contemporary
signature on front free endpaper.
Quote Item No. 10634
Price: £50.00
EDGEWORTH,
MARIA and R.L: Essays on Practical Education.
The Third Edition in Two Volumes.
London: for J. Johnson, 1811.
Two volumes. 8vo, pp.xv:(1):491:(1, advertisement) &
(1):501:(1, advertisement), contemporary full marbled tan calf;
lower joint of one volume cracked, lower board partly detached,
other joints cracked but firm, spines rubbed, one lettering piece
chipped, some foxing and browning.
Quote Item No. 7908
Price: £140.00
EVANS,
ARTHUR BENONI: The Cutter, in Five Lectures upon the Art and
Practice of Cutting Friends, Acquaintances, and Relations.
London: for J. Carpenter, 1808.
First edition. Hand-coloured frontispiece and five folding
hand-coloured plates. Small 8vo, pp.(6):104, 19th Century half
crimson morocco, marbled boards, spine floral gilt extra, top edge
gilt others uncut. A very nice copy in a most attractive
binding in excellent condition. Anonymous.
Quote Item No. 8323
Price: £220.00
GENTLEMAN'S
LIBRARY (THE), Containing Rules for Conduct in All Parts of Life.
Written by a Gentleman.
London: by E.P. for W. Mears, at the Lamb, and J. Browne,
at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, 1715.
Engraved frontispiece. First edition. Large 12mo,
pp.(48):431:(25), contemporary full panelled tan calf; joints
cracked but firm, extremities rubbed, title a little dusty or
marked. A pleasing copy.
Quote Item No. 7934
Price: £375.00
GODFREY, ELIZABETH: English Children in the Olden Time.
London: Methuen, 1907.
First edition. 32 black & white plates. 8vo. pp.xvii:336:40
[publisher's list], original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine
and front cover, no dustwrapper; binding very slightly edge-rubbed;
page edges browned and foxed; internally, endpapers slightly
browned, some foxing throughtout, else very good.
Quote Item No. 1037
Price: £10.00
GORDON, CHARLES: The Old Bailey and Newgate.
London: T. Fisher, Unwin, n.d. ca 1902.
Illustrated with black & white plates and illustrations in the text.
8vo, pp.xi:362, original glazed cloth pictorially blocked and
lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others untrimmed, no dustwrapper; binding
corners bumped and slightly rubbed, else very good; internally, ink
ownership name to verso of front free-endpaper. A very good copy.
Quote Item No. 5868
Price: £44.00
GRIFFITHS, MAJOR ARTHUR: Clubs and Clubmen.
London: Hutchinson, 1907.
First edition. 8vo, pp.viii:341:(2, adverts.), original blue
cloth, top edge gilt; some foxing, contemporary signature and
date on front free endpaper, generally very good.
Quote Item No. 6285
Price: £25.00
HARPER, CHARLES G:
Half-Hours with the Highwaymen. Picturesque Biographies and
Traditions of the "Knights of the Road". Illustrated by Paul Hardy
and by the Author, and from old prints.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1908.
First edition. Two volumes. 8vo, pp. xiv:397 & x:396, original tan
cloth pictorially blocked in black. One corner bumped, light rubbing
to headbands, near contemporary signature on front free endpapers,
endpapers foxed but generally a good copy.
Quote Item No. 9030
Price: £80.00
HARPER, CHARLES G: Haunted
Houses. Tales of the Supernatural with Some Account of Hereditary
Curses and Family Legends.. Illustrated by the Author.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1907.
First edition. 8vo, pp. xv:285, original black cloth pictorially
blocked in white and gilt. Stitching a little slack, 3 plates
detached but present. Some foxing. The binding good and attractive.
Quote Item No. 9031
Price: £55.0
HARPER, CHARLES G:
The Smugglers. Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient
Craft. Illustrated by Paul Hardy, by the Author and from Old Prints
and Photographs.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1909.
First edition. 8vo, pp.xii:252, original green cloth blocked
in black; headbands bruised, some light rubbing, endpapers foxed,
upper inner joint pulled but firm.
Quote Item No. 9026
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IMBERT-TERRY, HENRY MACHU: Les Imbert. The Chronicle
of an Ancient Family. Written and Compiled from Old Letters
and Documents.
London: printed for private circulation by Adlard & Son,
1930.
First edition. Illustrated with black & white plates, some
folding. 8vo, pp.iv:158, original blue cloth ruled in gilt and
with gilt armorial emblem to upper cover; headbands and
corners bumped and slightly frayed; binding suffering
damp-marking to both upper and lower covers causing loss of colour
and spotting; endpapers browned and some edge foxing to
leaves; some edges of the folding plates creased.
Quote Item No. 6768
Price: £35.00
JONES, WILLIAM HENRY: History of Indefatigable Lodge No.
237 and of the Advancement of Freemasonry in Swansea.
Carmarthen: Printed for Members of the Indefatigable Lodge
by Bro. Walter Spurrell, 1923.
Frontispiece, plates. 8vo, pp.vi:(2):203, original pale blue
cloth blocked in silver; very slight spotting to spine,
inscription on front pastedown; generally a very good copy.
Scarce.
Quote Item No. 7216
Price: £35.00
LAMB, G.F. [Editor]: The English at School, an
Anthology.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1950.
First edition. Frontispiece. 8vo, pp.xix.192, original
cloth; fine in slightly browned dustwrapper.
Quote Item No. 82
Price: £15.00
LANCASTER,
JOSEPH: Improvements in Education as it respects the
Industrious Classes of the Community; containing, among other
Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the
Education of One Thousand Poor Children, of Borough-Road,
Southwark......
London: Printed and Sold by J. Lancaster, Free School,
Borough Road; Darton and Harvey, Gracechurch Street, and
Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1806.
Fourth edition. 8vo, pp.xvi:211, contemporary full tan calf,
heaband chipped, lacking lettering piece, a little rubbed.
Title-page partly detached, two leaves of prelims. detached and a
little dust-marked/browned on margins, occasional foxing.
Upper inner joint cracked but very firm. With the engraved
armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart (1774-1844).
Quote Item No. 7925
Price: £250.00
MURRAY, ALEXANDER: Reason
and Society in the Middle Ages.
Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1978.
First edition. Black &
white plates. Tall 8vo,
pp.xiv:511, original cloth in dustwrapper;
a tiny chip and some rubbing to edge of dustwrapper, some
shelf-wear; top of pages
a trifle dusty;
generally excellent. A
presentation inscription from the author on the title page.
Quote Item No. 9089
Price: £60.00
NUMARK, CHARLES A. and JACOBS, MARTIN S. [Editor]:
America's Wartime Scrapbook. From Pearl Harbour to V-J Day.
London: New Cavendish Books, 2002.
Profusely illustrated in colour. Folio, pp.64, original glazed
boards; a very good copy.
Quote Item No. 8368
Price: £10.00
PARSONS, FRANK ALVAH: The Psychology of Dress.
New York: Doubleday, 1920.
Plates. Large 8vo, pp.xxiv:358, original cloth. Upper
outer joint partly split, central vertical crease to spine, some
pencil annotations; a reference copy only.
Quote Item No. 2378
Price: £12.00
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1949.
Reprint. 8vo, pp.vii:138, original cloth; a very good copy
indeed in like d.w.
Signed by the author on dedication leaf and inscribed on the front
free endpaper "Vera Brittain from the Author, a memento of her
visit to Aylesbury 11-10-50".
Quote Item No. 4064
Price: £18.00
RUSSELL, CHARLES E.B: Lads' Clubs, their History, Organisation
and Management. Being a revised edition of the author's,
"Working Lads' Clubs".
London: A & C Black, 1932.
Portrait and black & white plates. 8vo, pp.xvi:272, original orange
cloth, no dustwrapper; headbands bumped and with nicks to the cloth,
light coloured stain to lower fore-corner of upper cover else good;
page edges browned; internally, endpapers slightly browned and with
a book-plate to the front pastedown, in all other respects, very
good.
Quote Item No. 1653
Price: £9.00
SCOTT, GEORGE RYLEY: Phallic Worship: A History of Sex
and Sex Rites in relation to the religions of all races from
antiquity to the present day.
London: Luxor Press, 1966.
41 plates and illustrations in the text. 4to, pp.xxii:234,
original patterned cloth with leather gilt title label; very
good.
Quote Item No. 3976
Price: £30.00
TAYLOR, GEORGE HENRY: The Excursions of a Village Curate; or,
The Fruits and Gleanings of a Month's Ramble in Quest of Health.
London: Lupton Relfe, 1927.
First edition. 8vo, pp.iv:178, original cloth-backed boards
lettered in gilt on spine; spine severely faded; foxing
to endpapers and some leaves of text; ink ownership name on
reverse of title and f.f.e.; edges slightly rubbed.
Quote Item No. 6511
Price: £21.00
WHITTING, C.J: History of the Lodge of Hengist. No.
195. Bournemouth. Royal Arch and R. Croix Chapters.
Mark, Boscombe and Horsa Lodges. 1770 - 1897.
Bournemouth: W. Mate, 1897.
First edition. Numbered "No.8" on title. Plates, some
folding. 8vo, pp.272, original blue cloth; an excellent
copy. With the bookplate of E.H. Shackleton on front
pastedown.
With the programme of the Masonic Ceremonial for the installation of
Sir Augustus Webster as Provincial Grand Master in 1902, other
pamphlets, autograph letters, news-cuttings etc. loosely inserted.
Quote Item No. 7096
Price: £50.00
WILSON, H.B: The History of Merchant-Taylors' School from
its Foundation to the Present Time. In Two Parts. Part 1. Of
its Founders, Patrons, Benefactors, and Masters. Part 2. Of
its Principal Scholars.
London: by F.C. and J. Rivington, 1814.
Title with engraved arms, portraits and double-page table.
4to, pp.xxx:1254:(1, addenda), contemporary full black calf with
lettering piece. Headband chipped, joints split, upper inner hinge
crudely repaired with tape, title-page soiled and with repaired
tears, otherwise, internally a very good and clean copy.
Quote Item No. 7595
Price: £25.00
WILTSHIRE FOLK LIFE SOCIETY: Wiltshire Folklife. Four
issues only, as under.
Salisbury: Wiltshire Folk Life Society, 1976-1979.
Volume One, Number One, Autumn 1976: pp.37, paper-wrappers,
slightly bumped along lower edge.
Volume Two, Number One, Spring 1978: pp.54:[4,
advertisements], paper-wrappers, lower spine chipped.
Volume Two, Number Two, Autumn 1978: pp.60, paper-wrappers.
Volume Three, Number One, Winter 1979: pp.52, paper-wrappers.
Quote Item No. 7287
Price: £12.00