Results for: Britain and Society

Cambridge University Press, 1967-1989. First edition. Clean ex-library set of 9 books, comprising Vols I-VIII, lacking only Vol VII parts i & ii (pubd 2000). [ie: Vol I-i Prehistory (1981), Vol I-ii AD 43-1012 (1972), Vol II 1042-1350 (1988), Vol III 1348-1500 (1991), Vol IV 1500-1640 (1967), Vol V-i 1640-1750 Regional Farming Systems (1984), Vol V-ii 1640-1750 Agrarian Change (1985), Vol VI 1750-1850 (1989), Vol VIII 1914-1939 (1978).] All are first editions, varying in size from 350 to 1200pp. All except Vol IV have library marks to verso of title page, more marks and a bar code on the front free endpaper, and a stamp to the top edge of text block - but are otherwise unmarked. Vol IV also has stamps on the front of the title page and on the front pastedown, and a white ink number on the spine. The contents of all volumes are otherwise very clean, and the whole set appears to have been used little if at all. The bindings of rich green cloth lettered in gilt with puce lettering-piece are clean and firm, with some extremities slightly knocked. All have dustjackets: these are clean, but sunned and slightly knocked, with an unsunned mark on the spine where a library label was, except for Vol IV, which has a fresh bright jacket. Very good set.
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Price: £600.00

London, John Murray, 1877. First Edition. xiv, 341pp, plus 73 plates (drawings, illustrations in colour, and some with gilt), and with engravings in the text. Beautifully and passionately assembled story of the extraordinary history of the author's home. Elizabeth I and other British monarchs stayed there, and Catherine Parr is buried there. Some foxing to the title page and its tissue guard, negligible amount elsewhere. Original black endpapers, with the Winchcombe binder's label on the pastedown. Large quarto, in the original black grained cloth over bevelled boards, ruled in blind and with the gilt device in the centre, rebacked and with the original spine laid down: firm and bright with slight knocks to the corners. Very nice copy.
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Price: £340.00

Edward Churton, London, 1841. First edition. The first edition of Burke's Knightage. xv, 216pp, with additional engraved title (slightly foxed), 4 plates, and several text illustrations. p.216 finishes with "The End" but a copy in the British Library has a further 5 pp. Slight browning of first few pages and traces of former underlining in two places, otherwise contents clean. 12mo, 6" x 4", in handsome new binding of green Victorian cloth, boards ruled in blind, spine gilt-ruled at the ends and with gilt-lettered black label. VG+.

Price: £160.00

Privately printed, Rochford, 1915, 1934. First Edition. Title page dated 1915 but printed slip dated 1934 explains that 'owing to the War and other circumstances.... it was found necessary to postpone publication'. 107pp, plus 5 single plates (drawings, 4 being of local characters) and 3 double-page plates on coated stock, one being a street photograph and the other two reproductions of paintings. One (drawing) plate slightly soiled, otherwise contents very clean. Some wonderful stories and glorious descriptions: "Speaking of excursionists, one wonders what they are like in every-day life. Those who frequent Southend belong entirely to one type. The women are large and fat, with most scarlet faces, and, as regards dress, in most cases the skirt and body are parting company...What can these people be in ordinary every-day life when not engaged in excursions to Southend ? But to get the full benefit of the holiday makers is to meet them on the return journey in a fairly crowded carriage with a whole family of children as extras; the latter are generally cross and tired, have purchased any amount of sweets and Alexandra rock, which they not only eat but soap their hands and faces with..." (etc). The final chapter includes an extraordinary 12 page List of Executions in Essex in the 100 years up to 1871: crimes include many highway robberies. 7.1" x 4.8", in pink card covers printed in black: slightly faded with minor marks, but firm and generally clean. VG. Extremely scarce. [Author also wrote 'Hunting Recollections' (Rochford, 1911). ]

Price: £120.00

Caliban Books: Firle, Sussex (Vol 1), and c/o Biblios books, Horsham, Sussex (Vols 2-6); 1980, 1981, 1982. First Edition thus. About 250-350pp per volume. Pages browning slightly in the last 2 vols, but contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In original red cloth-textured bindings lettered in gilt. Firm, with a few marks, but generally clean, spines slightly sunned, some spine ends puckered, corners good (except vol 4 slightly knocked). No dustjackets. VG set. ISBNs 0904573206, 0904573214, 0904573222, 0904573230, 0904573249, 0904573257.
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Price: £120.00

London: printed for John Barnes at the London Gazette, 1749. Presumed first and only edition. [ii] (title page), (9-)50pp. Pamphlet. A response to Bolingbroke's Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism. The text starts at p.9, and there are no signs of prelims having been removed. Shallow chip 3x1cm from corner of title page. Pages otherwise good, sewing (which may be later) firm, 7.7 x 4.9ins, in later plain olive paper covers, partially detached, bearing the ownership name W.Rolleston in tiny handwriting. Extremely scarce. G+.

Price: £120.00

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

London: John Murray, 1853. First edition. (viii), 340pp +32 advertisements, plus the five engraved plates. No half-title. Some foxing to prelims and final advert pages, and the plates have a slightly encroaching stain to the inner lower corner. Contents otherwise generally clean. In the original binding of brown grained cloth decorated in blind and with a gilt medallion on the front, with new matching-coloured spine with printed paper label, with author's name mis-spelt 'Banks'. Boards firm, with some stains, but general appearance good. VG.

Price: £65.00

The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1999. First Edition. xii, 424pp. Contents very fresh and clean. In original binding of maroon cloth lettered in gilt, spine ends slightly knocked. Unclipped dustjacket is clean, but slightly knocked at the edges and slightly sunned. VG+ in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £60.00

London: James & James, 2009. First edition. 144pp, illustrated throughout, many in colour. Contents clean and unmarked. Square quarto, roughly ten inches square, in the original binding of grey boards, spine titled in silver. Upper extremities have been bumped and straightened; otherwise clean, firm and bright. In protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket, also with upper corners knocked: fresh and bright. Very Good+ in VG+ dust-jacket.

Price: £60.00