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London: Printed by A. Strahan... for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 1827. Sixth Edition. xvi, 797pp. Some browning to endpapers and to a few openings. Slightly cockled and with barely discernible tide stains and occasional dustiness to edges, but contents otherwise very clean and in good order, text block firm. In full 19thC calf, ruled in blind, with five raised bands, heavily scuffed, some splitting to joints, boards firm, and with perhaps later bright spine label. Scarce in the original: nice copy. Very Good.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £85.00

Durham, London, Edinburgh; for the Surtees Society: variously, by: Nichols, Pickering, Andrews, Whittaker, Quaritch, & Blackwood. 1835, 1860, 1906, 1929. First editions. Vol I: xi, 443, 16, with a foldout facsimile; Vol II: viii, 414; Vol III: viii, 215; Vol IV: (viii), 354. Pencilled underlinings in text and notes to rear endpapers, conspicuous in Vol I, but present in all vols: contents of the last 3 vols are otherwise fresh. Vols II & III have armorial bookplates, and Vol IV has a 1929 gift inscription on the half-title. Vol III has worm holes up to p.3. Vol I has some toning to first and final pages, and is bound in contemporary green glazed textured cloth boards with later untitled green cloth spine: corners bumped and scuffed, and with a small repair to base of lower joint. Vols II, III & IV are in the original Surtees Society binding of green cloth with spine ruled and titled in gilt with the society's emblem; all are firm, top edges dusty, with slight knocks or scuffs, although Vol II has a repair to the lower joint, and Vols II & IV are quite dulled. Original printings over a 95-year period: very uncommon as a set. Good+.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £140.00

London: Whittaker and Co., / Nichols and Son, 1842. First edition. (iv), 144pp, with the fold-out Paston family tree and 12 heavily-foxed plates. Directions to the Binder tipped in at p.1. *** The verso of the half-title bears the armorial bookplate of the Shropshire Benthall family, on which is handwritten 'Francis Benthall Esq. FSA. 1841. Buckfast Abbey.' Benthall, whose 'magnificent assemblage of highly valuable and important books' was sold by Sotheby's in 1855, has, with brown ink and pencil, made very considerable additions to the printed Paston family tree, particularly in increasing the number of Sir William and Bridget (nee Heydon) Paston's offspring from two to nine, and adding several generations of their descent. Bound in at the front of the book are two MSS also in his own hand: a): a double page on which he has written out a 'Coppie of a Letter from the Lady Margaret, Mother to King Henry the seventh' concerning the Paston lands, together with a note concerning the 'forty nine... noble families having a share of Paston blood'; and b): a foldout family tree of 'The descent of the marriage of Sir Wm Paston... and Ann Beaufort...', which finds the connection to his own family, the Benthalls. *** Browning to a few pages, principally those adjacent to the plates, pages otherwise clean. Tall 8vo, 9 x 5.6 ins, in contemporary grained cloth ruled and decorated in blind with gilt spine title. Newish endpapers confirms impression of it having been refurbished in modern times. Scarce, and a clean, firm copy, with much additional material. Very Good.

Price: £175.00

London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1924]. First edition. 222pp. Some tanning to endpapers, page edges foxed, page surfaces clean and unmarked. 'Good Manners, says Lady Kitty Vincent, 'are the pneumatic tyres on the motor-car of life.' Firm, in the original binding of bright blue cloth titled in gilt. Spine bright, corners sharp, boards with some pale marks. In protected dust jacket, foxed and tanned, with some wear to edges. Nice copy of a title scarce in any edition. Very Good.

Price: £80.00

London: Gollancz, 1933. First edition (ie: first printing). 288pp. Contents fine (very fresh, no marks). Text block edges clean (top edge dull green, bottom edge with rub mark towards front). In the original binding of smooth black cloth, spine titled in green. Spine ends puckered and faint ridge to spine. Front bottom corner has small knock. Cloth fresh, with very slight fading to spine. An exceptionally unworn copy. Near Fine.

Price: £2,200.00

Augustus M. Kelley, New York, 1967. Covering the period 924-1898. Facsimile reprint of the edition published in 1904 by P.S.King & Son, London, containing the 1898 revisions made by the author and a biography by H.G.Willink. The first two volumes were first published in 1854, and Mackay's supplement by Putnam's in 1900. Vol I: (iv), x, lxxviii, 384, (ii); Vol II: (iv), viii, 460pp; Vol III: (iv), xv, 617pp,(i). Contents fresh and unmarked, in the original green buckram with black lettering-pieces lettered in gilt: clean, fresh and sharp. Unblemished set. Near Fine.
[EXTRA Heavy Item]

Price: £120.00

London: Batsford, 1979. First edition. 144pp, with many illustrations. Contents clean and unmarked, but with faint tobacco smell. Quarto, in the original green cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, with slight puckering to base of spine. In the protected clipped pictorial dust jacket, clean and bright, with small knocks to spine ends. Very nice copy. Near Fine in very good+ dust-jacket.

Price: £60.00

London: Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. 374pp. New unread copy. A tiny bit of foxing to front endpaper, contents otherwise fresh and clean. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, spine ends slightly blunted. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very bright. Tony Parker's classic portrait of a South London High Rise estate, through the mouths of its residents. Near Fine in fine dust-jacket.

Price: £35.00

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Reprint. 297pp. Contents clean, fresh and unmarked. In original pale blue boards. Very slight compression to spine ends. No jacket. Clean, sharp, fresh copy. Near Fine.

Price: £30.00

London: Routledge 1998. First edition. xiv, 240pp, with charts and diagrams. Author's gift inscription on dedication page. Contents otherwise clean and fresh. Front pastedown has a thin ridge (binding fault). Uses data and management science to examine manorial production efficiency in medieval Essex in 1086 ..[revealing] unexpected facts about economic history. In the original smooth grey binding, clean, firm, and sharp. Near Fine.

Price: £68.00