Decorative edition of Trevelyan's biography of the controversial whig politician. Bumping and rubbing to edges. No date but c. 1910. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
From the English Men of Action Series. With frontisportrait. Some sunning to spine. previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Mild foxing to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
Topographical description of Anglo-saxon sites and heritage in essex. With b/w photographs by Mark Galloway. Some light tanning to page edges. Contents crisp and clean. Near fine. [more...]
Wide-ranging historical, architectural and topographical history of Essex, with b/w images. Toning to spine, rubbing to edges. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
Selection of lively essays on english history including the Black death, the Friars in England, the foundation of Cambridge university and others. Dust jacket has some tears with loss to top of spine. Tanning to page edges, otherwise contents clean and tight [more...]
'Being a further selection of Brief Lives, together with excerpts from his writings on antiquities and science'. Selected and edited by Richard Barber. With b/w images. Complete with slipcase. Some shelfwear and marking to slipcase. Light rubbing to label [more...]
Important contemporary account of the Life of Charlemagne by the diminutive scholar, Einhard. Bound in a mock vellum with gilt titling. Full colour images of illuminated manuscripts and artifacts. Decorated endpapers, complete with slipcase. Slipcase has s [more...]
From the Britain in Pictures: The British People in Pictures series. With colour plates and b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges of DJ. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean and sound. Very good overall. [more...]
From the Handbook of European National Dances series. With a history of the dances, diagrams of their steps and music, plus full page colour illustrations of the dancers. Complete with DJ. Mild rubbing to edges. Toning to spine and edges of DJ. Contents cle [more...]
From the Handbook of European National Dances series. With a history of the dances, diagrams of their steps and music. Complete with DJ. Rubbing to edges of DJ. Offsetting to end-papers. Tanning to page edges. Contents clean and tight. Good. [more...]
'The Eleventh Annual Appearance of this renowned repository od curiosities and looking glass of past and present.' Designed by Laurence Scarfe. With b/w and colour images. Mild sunning to spine. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
From the Britain in Pictures series. With colour plates and b/w illustrations. Rubbing to edges of DJ, tears to top and tail of spine. Contents clean and sound. Good. [more...]
From the Britain in Pictures series. With colour plates and b/w illustrations. Light Rubbing to edges of DJ, mild toning to spine Contents clean and sound. Very good overall. [more...]
No date but c. 1900. Accessible, illustrated history of Queen Victoria by the butterscotch makers. Small oblong 8vo. Rubbing to edges. Previous owner's name to title page. Binding holding. Fair. [more...]
Elegant Folio Society edition of the prose version of this chronicle of Richard I's crusade, thought to derive from the verse of Ambroise. With dramatic illustrations by Raymond Hawthorn. Bound in full vellum style vegetable parchment with gilt decoration. [more...]
