Screens and Galleries of English Churches
London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1908. With 152 illustrations, mainly from photographs. More
British Isles
Queen Anne's American Kings
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1952. 'Queen Anne received this first official embassy of red Indian chiefs, called 'Kings' in England, who were conducted on a tour of London ...'. More
Capstan Bars. With eight woodcuts by Freda Bone
Edinburgh, The Porpoise Press, 1931. With the printed presentation plate 'From Mr. J.H. Gosse ... With Compliments' to (typed) 'The Secretary, Shiplovers' Society'. Sir James Hay Gosse (1876-1952), businessman, was a 'bustling, forthright and active man, irascible and genial by turn, Gosse was much sought after for his zest and..... More
![Item #100638 Our Nationalities. I. Who are the Irish? [Bound with] II. Who are the Scotch? [and]...](/pictures/thumb/100638_00.jpg?v=1550893922)
Our Nationalities. I. Who are the Irish? [Bound with] II. Who are the Scotch? [and] III. Who are the Welsh? [and] IV. Who are the English?
London, David Bogue, 1880, 1880, 1881 and 1881. More
The Goldfish Bowl. Married to the Prime Minister, 1955-1997
London, Chatto & Windus, 2004. Inscribed in ink, 'Best wishes', and signed by one author, barrister Lady Cherie Blair QC (née Booth), wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. More
Lavengro. Scholar, Gypsy, Priest
London, T.N. Foulis, 1914. With the bookplate of notable New Zealand author, historian, collector and photographer Hardwicke Knight (featuring an alert squirrel) on the front pastedown. With twelve colour illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. More
The Zincali. An Account of the Gypsies of Spain
London, John Murray, 1901 (new impression)/ [1841]. The author's second book. 'In Spain, while working for a Bible society, he found his literary homeland, whence came the raw materials for 'The Zingali'' (Britannica). More
A Treatise on Convictions on Penal Statutes
London, Brooke, 1792. More
Irish Hunting
Tralee, The Kerryman, [1954]. The history, the colour and the pageantry of Ireland's thirty-five packs of foxhounds and staghounds. Illustrations by Lionel Edwards. More
![Item #126733 My Garden in Spring. [Together with]: My Garden in Summer [and] My Garden in Autumn...](/pictures/thumb/126733_01.jpg?v=1635753087)
My Garden in Spring. [Together with]: My Garden in Summer [and] My Garden in Autumn and Winter
Newton Abbott, David & Charles Reprints, 1972 / 1914, 1914 and 1915. First volume with an introduction (unique to these reprints) by Anthony Huxley; the publishers 'were unable to reproduce the colour plates of the original edition'. More
The Flying Elephants. A History of No. 27 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps - Royal Air Force, 1915-1969
London, Macdonald, 1972. More
Aircraft for the Royal Air Force. [The 'Griffon' Spitfire; The Albermarle Bomber; The Shetland Flying-Boat: cover subtitle]
London, Faber and Faber, 1980. More
![Item #129913 Images of Steam [by] 'Fenman'. John BOYD](/pictures/thumb/129913_01.jpg?v=1656058158)
Images of Steam [by] 'Fenman'
London, Ian Allan, 1968. 'Fenman' is the collective pseudonym of five former graduates of Cambridge with a shared interest in railway photography (dustwrapper). More
School Ties
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985 [first edition]. The full scripts of the author's two films for television on single-sex boarding schools, together with a long introductory essay. More
Gallant Deeds. Being a Record of the Circumstances under which the Victoria Cross, Conspicuous Gallantry, or Albert Medal were won by Petty Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the Reserve Forces during the Years of War, 1914-1919
(Swanbourne, Burridge, 1980s, a facsimile edition)/ 1919. More
The Campaign in the Crimea. An Historical Sketch ... Accompanied by Forty Double Tinted Plates from Drawings taken on the Spot by William Simpson
London, Paul and Dominic Colnaghi, 1855 [first series]. The plates in the text do not count in the pagination, but as we included the lithographic title leaf in the preliminaries total to make up the required number of pages, we suspect this rebound copy is possibly lacking a half-title or..... More
T.S. Eliot
London, Longmans, Green & Co. for the British Council and the National Book League, 1950. One of the Bibliographical Series of Supplements to 'British Book News'. More
History of Old Sheffield Plate. Being an Account of the Origin, Growth and Decay of the Industry, and of the Antique Silver and White or Britannia Metal Trade, with Chronological Lists of Makers' Marks and Numerous Illustrations of Specimens
Sheffield, J.W. Northend, 1968 (facsimile reprint)/ 1912. More
Diseases of the Spinal Cord
Edinburgh, Young J. Pentland, 1884 (second edition)/ 1882. Provenance: Dr Robert Hamilton Russell (1860-1933), the eminent English-born Australian surgeon, with his contemporary signature ('R. Hamilton Russell | Salop Infirmary | 1885') on the half-title (see the 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' for further information). The front endpaper contains the paper label..... More
The Rose in Darkness
London, Michael Joseph, 1979. More
Classic Ocean Liners. Volume 1: Berengaria, Leviathan and Majestic
Wellingborough, Patrick Stephens, 1990. More
Medieval Comic Tales
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). Preface by Peter Ackroyd. 'This edition follows the second, expanded and updated, edition'. More
Medieval Comic Tales
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). Preface by Peter Ackroyd. 'This edition follows the second, expanded and updated, edition'. More
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges. Excluding the Eight Dramas
London, Humphrey Milford/ Oxford University Press, 1913. A Derby School prize binding, with the school's crest in gilt on the front cover and armorial bookplate on the front pastedown; not stated as such but we know the recipient to have been A.R.M.Tranter. More
![Item #132555 Folk Tales of Britain. Narratives. [A three-volume boxed set]. Katherine M. BRIGGS](/pictures/thumb/132555_01.jpg?v=1672872975)
Folk Tales of Britain. Narratives. [A three-volume boxed set]
London, The Folio Society, 2011 (first thus). With a preface by Philip Pullman. [3 items]. More