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Offices of the English Land Restoration League, London, 1891. 18pp (including a list of subscribers), followed by (ii) a form on which to write a daily report after each meeting, 16pp (the Eighth Annual Report) and (ii) a statement of accounts. Some soiling and a tide mark to the edge of some pages. 8vo, VG, in Fine new binding of grey boards with attractive printed label reproduced from the title page.

Price: £25.00

Market Drayton: Bennion & Co, [1923]. Third edition. 175pp, (i). Contents clean and unmarked. In the original green cloth, title and author in gilt. Spine ends puckered and scuffed, with a small nick at the head. VG.

Price: £35.00

London: Cape, 1992. First edition. 544pp, with 62 photographs. Contents clean and unmarked and pages white, although closed text block edge looks brown. In the original green cloth-textured binding lettered in gilt, clean, bright and firm, extremities sharp. In protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, crisp, bright and clean, with a small knock to head of spine and very slight knock to top edge of lower panel. Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket.

Price: £40.00

Simson, Hertford, 1880. First and presumed only edition. viii, 15, 428pp, +(iv) adverts: the large folding map is missing its upper section(s). A few small line illustrations in text, mostly coats of arms. Title-page has a little wear and soiling but the contents are otherwise very good. Octavo, all edges gilt, recased with new endpapers in the original decorative and pictorial cloth, now sturdy, but showing rubbing at the joints and some wear to the old surface cloth at the ends. VG. VG..

Price: £45.00

Bungay: Richard Clay Ltd, n.d. [1928]. First edition. 109pp, with illustrations by Frank H. Mason, R.B.A. and map endpapers. Half-title stamped 'gratuitous'. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original orange cloth, firm, with printed paper labels to front and spine. Binding has some soiling, with small knocks and scuffs to extremities and short closed surface split to base of lower joint. VG.

Price: £48.00

Ideas in Context: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. xi, 428pp, (iii). Contents very fresh and unmarked, in the original black cloth-textured binding decorated in yellow and lettered in silver: clean, fresh and sharp, with slight compression to head of spine. Unclipped (unpriced) dustwrapper is fresh and bright with small knock to head of spine. Almost unblemished copy: Near-Fine/Near-Fine. ISBN 0521551056

Price: £50.00

Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead, 1990. First Edition. x, 290pp, with 21 illustrations and 20 tables. Contents very fresh, appears unread. In original black cloth-textured binding lettered in silver. Very firm, clean and bright, with slight compression to spine ends. In unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, bright and clean, with a knock at head of spine and a 5mm nick (with slight loss) to head of upper joint. Near-Fine / VG+.

Price: £60.00

London: 'Christian Age' Office, 1877. Fifth thousand. 147pp +(i) advert. With a frontis and a number of plates. No half-title. Occasional minor soiling, chiefly affecting the first few pages: mostly very clean. All edges gilt, newly recased in the original binding of blue pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, stamped in black and gilt, with new endpapers. Slight rubbing to gilt at base of spine, but otherwise very bright. This 'Young People's' edition appears to be much scarcer than the original, and is graced by Prefaces and illustrations lacking in the other. Very Good+.

Price: £60.00

Norwich, Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, 1910. Presumed first edition. (viii), 318pp. Title page printed in black and red. Generally clean, but some small pencil marks in margins, half-title slightly soiled, and some page corners creased and soiled at back of book. Partially unopened, edges uncut, top edge smoothed. In quiet and attractive new binding of quarter antique brown cloth with ruled grey boards and onlay of central section of original rather soiled printed cream paper wrapper. Printed paper label to spine with spare laid in. Pencilled notes on final blank, and tipped in adjacent is the first leaf (pp 1 & 2) of a "Statement as to the Formation and Progress of a Society called the Great Yarmouth Historical Buildings Limited...". Scarce. VG..

Price: £65.00

London, printed by Woodfall, for Rivington et al, 1817. The Eleventh Edition, considerably improved. In Two Volumes: VOL I: (vi)(title pages and an advertisement, and frontis portrait of George III), cv, A-H (plates illustrative of heraldic terms), 80 plates (mostly of arms, 10 to a page), 608pp; and VOL II: (ii), (649)-p1426 (as issued: there are no pages numbered 609-648). pp i-vi of vol I have frayed edges with some loss of margin, slight loss of the frontis border and of the "d" of Ireland, and these edges (and those of pp xlvii-l) have been professionally restored to size with archival translucent material. There is a stain to the leading upper corners up to p.xliv, extensive on the first few leaves, but rapidly reducing. One or two marginalia noticed, very few other slight marks, text generally very clean. Recent shallow cropping to tidy edges, margins not squeezed. 12mo, (6 x 3.75 inches), in handsome new craftsman binding of tan buckram with gilt titling on black labels. Lovely set.

Price: £85.00