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London: printed by D..N.Shury, Berwick Street, Soho; for Edmund Lloyd, Harley Street, 1810. First edition. [ii] [title page & blank), vi (preface), 533pp (1 blank), [1] [errata]. Text block uncut and clean, slightly cockled, firm, and in very good order. In the original soiled blue paper-covered boards, restored, with a new grey paper spine, with the original worn spine label laid on. [n.b: Part II was never published. The more common later editions have xvi, 531pp, suggesting some differences in the text.] VG+.

Price: £180.00

London: Printed by Henry Teape for the Admiralty Office, 1823. 135, 253pp, including both title pages. Contents extremely fresh and clean. Front free endpaper bears early naval ownership name in brown ink, and more recent pencilled name. Edges sprinkled. Firm, in contemporary half calf with red label and marbled boards, showing light wear. A bright, firm, attractive volume. Very Good+.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £120.00

Edinburgh: Engraved by W.Forrester, [1845]. The map tinted pink and blue, with extensive notes ('References') and an Enlarged Plan of the Order of Battle. The sheet 758 X 571 mm, backed with linen, and folding into the original red cloth covers 16.6 x 10.2 mm, titled in gilt. The map has no tears and no repairs: the cover has lost its ribbon tie and is scuffed at the edge. Date according to the National Library of Scotland. All in very good clean condition. Very Good+.

Price: £185.00

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1887. First edition. xvi, 325pp, with a guarded frontis portrait and two other portrait plates. Unopened: contents very clean and fresh and unmarked. Black endpapers: armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some very minor foxing to closed edges. Quarto, very firm, bright and clean, in the original binding of navy cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt harp on front and gilt titling to front and spine. Spine ends slightly puckered. Beautiful copy. Near Fine.
[Heavy Item]

Price: £120.00

London: Macmillan, 1897. First edition. (vi), 325pp, (2) adverts: with illustrations and folding maps. Minor foxing to reverse of the black endpapers and to frontis tissue guard, none elsewhere: contents very clean, maps fresh. In the original binding of smooth maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt: slight fading to spine, ends crimped, tips of corners knocked, small scuffs to joints. Firm and clean: a very nice copy. Very Good+.

Price: £75.00

Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1901. First Edition. ix, (ii), 227pp, including a number of diagrams in the text, and with a fold-out colour map at the end of the book. With the faint stamp on the half-title of Ampthill Lending Library. Contents otherwise clean and fresh, with slight creasing of the upper corners. In new binding of Victorian red buckram, boards ruled in blind, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Original very worn but legible spine strip conserved on final blank, as is a spare lettering-piece for the spine. VG+. Very scarce.

Price: £180.00

London: Nelson, n.d. [c.1910] 383: illustrated with a map, photographs and a frontis portrait. Contents clean and fresh throughout, with faint tanning to endpapers. Top edge gilt. In the original binding of light blue cloth, upper board much decorated in darker blue: boards firm and bright, corners sharp, spine titled in gilt and slightly darkened, ends crimped. A very nice copy. Near Fine.

Price: £30.00

London: Forster Groom & Co, 1917. First edition. 57pp +(xii) adverts + (iii) Memorandum pages. Stapled booklet with small Heffers bookseller stamp on title page. Rusted staples visible near spine inside front and back covers, contents otherwise fresh, clean and unmarked. 5 x 3.8 ins, in printed grey card covers. Very slight fading or marks, very nice copy. [nb - also in stock - Musketry: A Lecture on "Fire Orders", by the same author]. VG+.

Price: £40.00

[Publisher not stated]: printed by Silk & Terry Ltd, London and Birm., [1919]. Presumed only edition (date given by Steward). 23pp, preceded by 6 portrait photographs of the prime movers (Stokes (inventor of the Stokes Gun), F.H.Crittall, Mawdsley Brooke, H.S.Jefferies, P.A.Sanders & W.H.Scott), and followed by 12 photographs of the factories and production areas in Ipswich. Title page printed in black and red, and the text pages printed black with a red border. With a list of the Members of the East Anglian Munitions Committee, and a list of the Firms in the Area who Worked for the Committee (42 are listed, including Ransomes, Garrett, Girling, Boby, Crittall, Boulton & Paul, Marconi, and the National Steam Car Co.). While mostly concerned with the production of shells, credit is given to the various firms for the production of flying machines, ball bearings etc, and included is a summary to highlight the primacy of East Anglia's contribution to munitions production. Some very minor browning to endpapers, a little very faint foxing to some text pages. Very clean. In original brown paper-surfaced printed boards, ruled in blind, with a cloth spine. A little light scuffing and discolouration to edges. Very fresh copy. VG+. Scarce. [Steward 836]

Price: £60.00

Lincoln William Foster & Co. Ltd.: n.d. [1920?]. Presumed first and only edition. 90pp, full of photographs and a fascinating account of the genesis and rapid evolution of the first world war tank, written while its glory days were still fresh. A firm but worn and soiled copy: the guarded colour frontis is creased and soiled, and two other pages are creased; there is occasional minor soiling throughout; the pictorial endpapers are foxed; and edge tears to several pages have been repaired with archival tissue. Landscape quarto, in the original quarter morocco binding: morocco bright and firm, the blue pictorial boards very soiled. Good.

Price: £125.00