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EMINENT MEN OF KENT.
London: Elliot Stock, 1893. 178 pages. Frontispiece. Original brown cloth gilt, with mounted pictorial panel to front board. Octavo. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on front free endpaper, ‘With the Author’s Compt. 26/12/93.’ Signature of C. J. Renshaw below. A fine copy.
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ETCHINGS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF ANTIQUITIES IN THE COUNTY OF KENT.
London: Published for the Proprietor by Messes, T. & A. Arch, 1810 [1811]. Title with engraved vignette, 1 page introduction, 2 pages of subscribers. 44 pages of text, 1 List of plates. 39 full-page engraved plates. Recent full buckram; leather gilt label to spine. Short tear in blank margin of one plate; title a little browned toward fore-edge; else a very good copy.
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EXCURSIONS IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL, comprising a concise historical and topographical delineation of the principal towns and villages, together with descriptions of the residences of the nobility and gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and every other interesting object of curiosity; forming a complete guide for the traveller and tourist; illustrated with fifty engravings, including a map of the country.
London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1824. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xi, [ 1 blank], 183[184] pages, plus [8] pages Index and list of plates. Illustrated with a vignette half-title, a folding, engraved map of the county, and 49 engraved plates. Original boards recently and expertly re-backed in calf, gilt. 12mo. First edition. Some light browning to the borders of plates; else a very handsome copy.
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EXCURSIONS IN THE COUNTY OF KENT: comprising brief Historical and Topographical delineations; together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and other Interesting Objects of Curiosity. Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller and Tourist. Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, including a Map of the County.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. 216 pages. Illustrated with an engraved title page, 45 steel engravings, a folding map of Kent and a folding street plan of Canterbury. Contemporary full red calf, with raised bands, decorative gilt to spine and decorative gilt borders to boards. All edges gilt. 165 x 105 mm. Occasional light foxing, and some off-setting to the tissue guards; bookplates; else a clean copy in a handsome binging. The title page calls for 50 engravings, but this copy has the usual 48.
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EXTINCT CUMBERLAND CASTLES. Part II. [Reprinted from the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society's Transactions.]
Kendal.Titus Wilson & Son. 1910. 16pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Some notes in ink and pencil, almost certainly by the author, as this is a family copy. Family tree of The Manors of Kirkoswald and Lazonby annotated by hand and tipped-in at the rear with stamp paper. Name on front cover. A very good copy.
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EXTINCT CUMBERLAND CASTLES. Part IV. [Reprinted from the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society's Transactions.]
Kendal.Titus Wilson & Son. 1912. 38pp. Illustrated. Folding family tree, and one plate extra to paging. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy.
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Extracts from Wills and other Documents containing Benefactions to the Town of Faversham. Including a translation of the Foundation Charter of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth. Printed by order of the Trustees of Public Charities of the said Town.
Faversham: Printed by W. Ratcliffe, 1844. [4], 168 pages. Contemporary full calf gilt. 224 x 144 mm. First edition. Binding rubbed and worn; spine splitting, but firm; ownership name on title; else very good. Scarce.
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EYTHORNE The Story of a Village Baptist Church. With a Foreword by W. T. Whitley. Price Two Shillings.
London: Baptist Union Publication Dept, No date [circa 1924]. 80 pages. Illustrated. Original green cloth lettered in black. Octavo, 193 x 130 mm. First edition. Bookplate; ownership name on endpaper; else a very good copy of a scarce history.
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FLEET STREET IN SEVEN CENTURIES. Beyond a history of the growth of London beyond the walls into the Western Liberty, and of Fleet Street to out time. With a foreword by Sir William Purdie Treloar. Forty-six illustrations. Drawings by T. R. Way, Hanslip Fletcher, R. Anning Bell, T. E. Knightly; reproductions of old prints, maps, original documents, and photographs.
London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd, 1912. 608, 24 (Catalogue) pages. Original red cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Spine faded, but gilt still bright; some spotting to fore-edges; small bookplate; else a very good copy. Loosely laid is Publication issued by the London County Council in 1951, entitled No 17 Fleet Street "Prince Henry's Room."
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Flower of Cities A BOOK OF LONDON. Studies and Sketches by Twenty-two Authors. Illustrated with original drawings twenty-four plates in monochrome twelve plates in colour and two maps in colour.
London: Max Parrish, 1949. 324 pages. Original boards; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Bookplate on half-title; wrapper a little won and marked; else a very good, clean copy.
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Fragments of History Pertaining to the Vill, or Wille, or Liberty, of Ramsgate, Collected and Edited by Christr. Thos. Richardson.
Ramsgate: Published for the Author by Messrs. Fuller & Co., Queen Street, 1885. 212, [iii Subscribers list] pages. Folding frontispiece. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. Bookplates on front pastedown; head of spine worn with small loss; else a very good copy.
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Frith's Permanent Photographic Pictures of BIDEFORD DISTRICT.
F. Frith & Co, Ltd. Printers. No date. Original printed blue envelope containing twelve reproductions of photographs by Francis Frith, each titled and with the negative number. Each measures, landscape: 15 x 20 cm's. Envelope tatty, with some tears and two areas of small loss; photographs fine. Scarce.
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GOULDEN’S CANTERBURY GUIDE, containing An Account of whatever is curious or worthy of observation in and about that Ancient City, including the History and Description of the Cathedral, and St. Augustine’s Monastery.
Canterbury: H. J. Goulden, No date [circa 1890]. 72, [2 ad’s] pages. Illustrated with a folding map and many plates. Original pictorial wrappers. A little worn; else very good
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GUIDE TO LLANDRINDOD WELLS Illustrated with Maps and Views. Gossiping Guide Series. Price Sixpence.
Oswestry and Wrexham: Woodall, Minshall, Thomas, and Co, 1906. Softcover. 112 pages plus ad's. 2 folding maps, one with short tear. Original pictorial covers. 15.5 x 11 cm. Staples very rusty, with some damage to the paper around them, and some pages loose; small areas of loss from lower spine. A good plus copy.
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HAMPSHIRE & ISLE OF WIGHT BIBLIOGRAPHIES Selected Nineteenth Century Sources.
Winchester.Barry Shurlock. 1975. xxviii, 432pp. 29 illustrations. Original cloth gilt; glassine wrapper. First edition limited to 250 copies. Octavo. An excellent copy. Loosely inserted is a compliment slip from the publisher.
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HAND-BOOK TO THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ELY; with a brief account of the conventual building, &c. &c. Fourth edition.
Ely: Thomas A. Hills & Son, No date [1857]. [8], 91, [1], [4] ad’s pages. Engraved frontispiece, and five other full-page plates, plus a folding plate at the rear, and engravings in the text. Original red cloth gilt. 196 x 132 mm. Text block loosening; few spots; blanked out name on endpaper; else very good.
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HAPPY ENGLAND as painted by Helen Allingham. With memoir and descriptions by Marcus B. Huish.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1909. xi, 204, [2 ad's] pages. Illustrated with a portrait of the artist, and 80 full-page colour plates. Original red decorative cloth, gilt. First issue on the larger size edition. Endpapers browned, else a near fine copy.
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HAUNTING EDINBURGH. Illustrated by Katherine Cameron A.R.E. R.SW.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd, 1929. [i-vi],vii-x,[xi],1-178,[1], pp. 16 colour plates, including frontispiece. 6 black & white drawings plus 8 facsimile title pages. Blue pictorial cloth gilt. Dust wrapper with pictorial pastedown. Octavo. First edition signed on half-title by the author. Bookplate. Booksellers label to top corner of paste-down endpaper. Some browning to endpapers and fore-edges. Minor & inoffensive staining to front boards. Dust wrapper has some chipping to extremities and some tape repair to reverse of spine. Else a very good copy.
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HERALDIC NOTICES OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL; with Genealogical and Topographical Notes. To which is added, a chronological list of the Archbishops of Canterbury, with the blazon of their respective arms.
London: Harding, Lepard, and Co, 1827. Xi, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 188 pages. Tinted lithograph frontispiece, and the engravings within the text all hand-coloured as issued. Large-paper copy. First edition. Sometime re-bound in half calf, over marbled boards. Tipped-in announcement at start for another publication; original endpaper a little dusty; else a fine copy. The large-paper issue being rarely seen.
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HIGHER WHARFEDALE: The Dale of Romance, From Ormscliffe to Cam Fell… Nearly Two Hundred Illustrations prepared expressly for this work.
York: John Sampson, 1904. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. Original green cloth. Endpapers lightly dust-soiled; binding rubbed and a worn at extremities; else a good plus copy.
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