2051. [English History Collection] – Anonymous [Frederick Corbin Lukis] [Naturalist / Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge].

Rambles among the Channel Islands. By a Naturalist.

[First Edition]. London, Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no year [c. 1855]. 18 cm. Frontispiece – engraving of the Rocks at Moulin Huet (Guernsey), VIII, 386 pages with many illustrations (wood engravings) of Harbour at St.Peter Port, Guernsey / St.Sampson’s Harbour / St.Helier Harbour, Jersey / Rocks at Greve de Lecq, Jersey, St.Brelade’s Bay etc. etc. Hardcover / Original decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed wiith a private giftinscription on endpaper: “To my Darling Agnes on her Birthday from her loving Father [?], 5th August 1869”.

2052. [English History Collection] – Aspinall, A. [Ed].

Mrs. Jordan and her Family: Being the Unpublished Letters of Mrs. Jordan and the Duke of Clarence, later William IV.

First edition. London, Arthur Barker Ltd., 1951. 16 x 25cm. (27), 295 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to dustjacket and mild foxing to edges. Pre-owner’s name inscribed on front endpaper.

2053. [English History Collection] – Barclays Bank Ltd.

The Story of a Site.

England, Charles Barker and Sons Limited, 1959. 20.5 cm x 26 cm. 24 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout publication. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and discolouration on endpapers only. Original calling card of bank manager inside cover.

2054. [English History Collection] – Boswell, James.

Boswell’s London Journal 1762 – 1763. As first published in 1950 from the original MSS. Prepared for the press, with introduction and notes, by Frederick A. Pottle, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University.

London, The Reprint Society London, 1952. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. XII, 360 pages, including maps. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Slight browning of the pages. Clean inside. Solid binding.

2055. [English History Collection] – [Boswell, James]. Pottle, Frederick A. [ed.].

Boswell’s London Journal – 1762-63.

London, The Folio Society, 1985. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. VIII, 365 pages. With 20 illustrations. Original Hardcover. Quarter cloth-bound with slip case missing !! Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

2056. [English History Collection] – Bradley, A.G./ Palmer, Sutton.

The Wye. Painted by Sutton Palmer. Described by A.R.Hope Moncrieff.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1910. 8°. VIII, 189 pages with folded map of the river Wye in the rear. 24 full-page illustrations in colour with original, titled tissue-guards. Illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition of the extremely beautiful binding with only minor signs of wear. Some traces of foxing.

2057. [English History Collection] – Bragg, Melvyn.

Speak For England. An essay on England : 1900-1975 based on interviews with inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland.

First Edition. London, Book Club Associates, 1976. 16 x 24 cm. 504 pages including local historical photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2058. [English History Collection] – Brigden, Susan.

New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603.

First American Edition. New York, Viking, 2001. Octavo. XIII, 433 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2059. [English History Collection] – Brooke-Hunt, Violet.

The Story of Westminster Abbey. [Prize – Binding / Stunning Victorian Leather Binding by Relfe Brothers Ltd. London for the Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne Minster with exceptional gilted emblemata to frontcover: “Gubernato Libere Scole Grammatice in Winborne MinsterSigillum Commune – Elizabeth Regine Anno 1563”].

Twelfth Thousand. London, James Nisbet & Co, No date (1902). 13.5 cm x 18.5 cm. IX, 356 pages, including photographs and illustrations. Original Hardcover full morocco in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation inscription by Rev. J.M.J.Hetcher to J. Cutler [Small stamp: “Tilley’s Library Wimbourne” to endpaper].

2060. [English History Collection] – Burke, Thomas.

The Book of the Inn. Being Two Hundred Pictures of the English Inn from the earliest Times to the Coming of the Railway Hotel.

First Edition. London, Constable & Co Ltd., 1927. 18.8cm x 12.5cm. XV, 401 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. ExLibris of Hugh Mc Causland on pastedown.