OLD CHESHIRE FAMILIES & THEIR SEATS
Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. "A twofold object has been kept in view in writing this book. In the first place the aim has been to describe the rise of the great..... More
Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. "A twofold object has been kept in view in writing this book. In the first place the aim has been to describe the rise of the great..... More
London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. The first full-length biography of the Tory pamphleteer, playwright, and satirical historian. Volume 3 in the Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies series. 306 p. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued..... More
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Hardcover. "When the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity, their interpretation of the new religion was shaped by their tribal culture, itself shaped by paganism. A fundamental element of the old..... More
London and New York: Regency Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Edwards on the half-title. Fitzwalter's highly personalized account books "readily illuminate the life of a nobleman and his dependents in the second quarter..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 32 color plates, with 3 figures and 3 tables. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. First edition. "...examines critically the part played by maps in the early modern period..... More
New York: Wessels and Bissell Co., 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. An etcher, illustrator, and painter specializing in architectural studies, Fletcher (1874-1955) published several books of his work, including Bombed London (1947). Quarto. Original light brown..... More
London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1898. Second Edition. Hardcover. An extra-illustrated edition, with 95 plates (18 called for). Poignant and provocative record of what may be the most remarkable and enduring love triangle in history..... More
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Standard history of the private bank founded in London in 1753, which existed until 1969, when it became part of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Twenty..... More
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. "...argues that the discourse of sympathy both encourages and problematizes a sense of shared national identity in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture." Octavo. Original black..... More
Tewkesbury: Privately Printed, 1973. First Edition. Trade paperback. Inscribed by Irmadene on the front flyleaf. Intimate portrait of the British naval officer and Chipping Campden collector. Frontispiece portrait, with eleven illustrations. Octavo. Original stiff blue..... More
London: Printed by John Nichols, for Edward Brooke, 1788. First Edition. Hardcover. An English attorney and legal antiquary, Kelham (1717-1808) also published A Dictionary of the Norman or Old French Language (1779), which is credited..... More
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. 280 p. 24 plates. Macdonald (1866-1942), a prominent Los Angeles attorney, was descended from the Clan Macdonald, a Scottish Highland clan and one of the largest clans..... More
London and Northampton: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. with Joseph Tebbutt, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Limited to 200 numbered small paper copies. An annotated catalogue of the memorial, churchyard, market, boundary, wayside, preaching..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. 172 illustrations. The land, agriculture, country towns and industries, landed society, and the labouring life are examined by a group of distinguished scholars in..... More
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 309 p. 13 illustrations. Weaving a complex tapestry out of intellectual history and literary analysis, Orlin examines how the private issues of contentious marital relations..... More
London: George Allen and Unwin Limited, 1959. Hardcover. Second impression. An empty envelope hand-addressed by Queen Mary is laid in, along with an autograph letter signed (ALS) on Blenheim Palace stationery from Alexandra Mary Hilda..... More
London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1926. Hardcover. Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers and Account of the Voyages and Plunders..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. "This biography of Fulke Greville, first Lord Brooke, is an attempt to relate the development of his thought to his experience as a a private and public..... More
Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. A study of eighteenth-century notions of politeness, libertinism, class, religion and the public sphere with Wilkes (1727-97) at its center. 12 illustrations. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. "This is the first detailed and comprehensive study of British foreign policy before and during the war which led to the loss of the American colonies. The..... More
Tonbridge: Tonbridge School Shop, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. With a presentation slip from the publisher laid in. Small octavo. Original burgundy buckram binding, with gilt titles. Just a hint of very light foxing along the..... More
London: Sumptibus Societatis, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. William of Malmesbury's Deeds of the English Kings is one of the great histories of England, and one of the most important historical works of the European Middle..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Soft cover. 488 p. Original printed paper wrappers. Previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf. The wrappers are a bit browned along the extremities, with a minor crease to..... More
London: Alexander Maclehose & Co., 1933. Hardcover. 196 p. Eight illustrations, with endpaper maps. First edition. Small octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with black titles. Previous owner's ink signature to a prefatory blank leaf. The..... More