1. Addison, William.

English Spas.

London, B.T. Batsford LTD, 1951. 14.2 cm x 22.2 cm. Colour Frontispiece. VIII, 152 pages. 68 black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Minor foxing to endpapers, pastedowns, half-title page and edges.

2. Allitt, John S. / Blake, L.L. / Carey, John / Lindop, Grevel / Milne, Joseph / Raine, Kathleen.

Monarchy – A Series of Papers Delivered to the Temenos Academy Published to Mark the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

London, The Temenos Academy, 2002. 14.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 122 pages. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Temenos Academy Papers No.18]

3. Burton, Richard [That was the Pseudonym / Nom de Plume for Nathaniel Crouch].

The Wars in England, Scotland and Ireland – Or, An Impartial Account of all the Battels [sic], Sieges, and other Remarkable Transactions, Revolutions and Accidents, which have happened from the beginning of the Reign of King CHARLES I. in 1625, to his Majesties happy Restauration, 1660. By Richard Burton.

The Fifth Edition very much enlarged. London, Printed for J.R.for Nat. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry, near Cheapside, 1684. Duodecimo. Frontispice, [2], 231, [3] pages. With four ful-page woodcuts (including Frontispice) showing historical events, beheadings etc. Page 227 misprinted as page 229. LAst three pages are “Delights for the Ingenious – Books printed for N. Crouch”. Original full leather-covered boards. Binding in very poor condition with larger parts of the leather missing. Minor lesions to Frontispice and some papes to front and rear. Extremely rare !

4. [Chatham, William Pitt 1st Earl of] Rosebery, Lord.

Chatham: His Early Life and Connections.

London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1910. 23.8cm x 17.2cm. XII, 526 pages. Original Hardcover. Lower spine rubbed – Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some clear signs of foxing.

5. [Cobbett, William] Burton, Anthony.

William Cobbett – Englishman – A Biography.

London, Aurum, 1997. 24 cm. 275 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Name and inscription of preowner on endpaper.

6. Collins, Leonora.

London in the Nineties [Victorian London in Photographs]. Edited by Leonora Collins.

London, The Saturn Press, 1950. Quarto (21 cm x 27 cm). 96 pages with many photographs. Original Hardcover with the rare dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

7. [Combe, William] / [Thomas Rowlandson].

The Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of the Picturesque – A Poem [plus: “Volume Second”: “The Second Tour of Doctor Syntax – In Search of Consolation – A Poem”].

Volume One in Fourth Edition / Volume Two in First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Published by R. Ackermann at the Repository of Arts, 1813 – 1820. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece, engraved titlepage, [2], 276, plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 31 handcoloured illustrations (including Frontispiece and titlepage) by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson / Volume II: Frontispiece, [1], 277 pages plus 1 page with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates”. With 22 (of 24) handcoloured illustrations by caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson. Hardcover / Original half leather with original spine-labels and ornaments. Both Volumes with some rubbing but both in firm, original condition. Interior of Volume I with some mild foxing and fingerstaining only but all plates excellent. Interior of Volume II with a tear and loss of paper to the front free endpaper, some mild foxing, one plate and one textpage (page 11) slightly detached and with fraying). Minor wormholedamage to rear board (neglectable). Overall these two Volumes are in very good condition !

8. Crawshaw, E.

Scientific Temperance Addresses. Illustrated.

(London), Church of England Temperance Society, no year (c.1900). 8°. 98 pages with additional 15 pages added: Catalogue of Books &c. published by the Church of England Temperance Society. Hardcover / Original cloth. Stronger bump to one corner. Small stamp: “Church of England Temperance Society”. Rare !

9. Cudlipp, Hugh.

Publish And Be Damned ! The Astonishing Story of The Daily Mirror.

London, Andrew Dakers Limited, 1953. 14 x 22cm. (11), 292 pages, with black and white photograph plates and illustrations. Original hardcover with illustrated endpapers. Some mild signs of wear to boards and spine, including stains and bumping. Internally in very good condition.

10. De Mare, Eric.

Wren’s London.

London, The Folio Society Limited, 1975. 19.1 cm x 25.3 cm. Colour Frontispiece. 128 pages. Colour and black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to page edges. Corners lightly rubbed.

11. Dean, David.

English Shop Fronts from Contemporary Source Books 1792-1840.

London, Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1970. 21.8 cm x 27.8 cm. Black and white fronispiece. Unpaginated. With 77 full page illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to page edges. Pages very lightly tanned. Otherwise interior pages clean and unmarked.

12. Deluxe Illustrated Children’s Book – Kipling, Rudyard.

All the Puck Stories. With Illustrations by H.R.Millar and Charles E.Brock.

First Deluxe Edition (Published simultaneously with the trade edition). London, MacMillan and Co., 1935. Octavo. Frontispiece-Illustration, X, 670, [2] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover / Decorative full red leather with gilt lettering and gilt illustration of Puck on the front board. In its original, rare dustjacket. The dustjacket frayed with some loss. The Volume itself in excellent condition with some minor signs of wear to upper and lower hinge only.

13. Eddy, Paul.

The Falklands War. Written and edited by Paul Eddy and Magnus Linklater, with Peter Gillman, with the Sunday Times Insight Team.

London, Book Club Associates, 1983. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

14. [Emerson, George Waldo] Brydges, Sir S. Egerton.

Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books. With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities. With the articles classed in chronological order under their separate heads.

Second Edition. 7 of 10 volumes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10. (Incomplete). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 16 cm x 24 cm. Vol. 1: VIII, LXIII, 432 pages. / Vol. 2: VIII, 450 pages. / Vol. 3: VII, 434 pages. / Vol. 4: VII, 435 pages. / Vol. 6: VIII, 416 pages. / Vol. 8: VIII, 411 pages. / Vol. 10: VIII, 580 pages. Original Hardcover. Volume 1 has dampstaining on boards, front board detached. Volume 8 has small dampstain on front board. All volumes with stronger rubbing, fading on boards, otherwise good condition with content intact.

15. Emery, Jack.

The Putney Debates.

Cambridge, The Rampant Lions Press, 1983. 18.8cm x 27.8 cm. Colour Lino Frontispiece. 94 pages. With 6 colour lino-print illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with plain card slipcase. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Moderate foxing and discolouration to slip case. Book in as new condition. Front pastedown contains ‘Erik Haugaard’ Exlibris dated 1974. With navy colour decorated top edges. ‘This book was designed and five hundred copies were printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge. This type is 12 point Times New Roman set by the Stellar Press, with displayed matter in Hunt Roman; the paper is Zerkall Silurian; the lino-cuts were printed from the original blocks. The binding, in specially designed patterned paper boards, was by Woolnough of Wellingborough. This is number 174.’

16. [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.

17. [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.

18. [English History Collection] – Grigson, Geoffrey.

Britain Observed. The Landscape through Artists’ Eyes.

First Edition. London, Phaidon, 1975. 22cm x 25.5cm. 208 pages. With 149 Illustrations, 31 in colour. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

19. [English History Collection] – Impey, Edward / Parnell, Geoffrey.

The Tower of London – The Official Illustrated History.

London / New York, Merrell / Historic Royal Palaces. 2006. 23 cm x 28.5 cm. Frontispieces (Traitors Gate / Detail of painting of a Fire of the Tower of London / Den Tower Van London), 128 pages. Several hundred colour as well as black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Full colour gatefold plan of the tower inside front cover and painting of tower to rear cover gatefold.

20. [English History Collection] – Palmer, Marilyn / Neaverson, Peter.

Industrial Archaeology: Principles and Practice.

London, Routledge, 1998. 17.5 cm x 24.5 cm. XII, 180 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscription by preowner.