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
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A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF DELARIVIER MANLEY
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
THE CULT OF KINGSHIP IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity
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
THE ACCOUNT BOOKS OF BENJAMIN MILDMAY, EARL FITZWALTER
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
THE EMERGENCE OF ESTATE MAPS; Christ Church, Oxford 1600-1840
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
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE: Delineated by Hanslip Fletcher, with Introduction by J. Willis Clark, M.A., Registrary of the University of Cambridge, and Notes by Various Writers
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
THE TWO DUCHESSES: Family Correspondence of and Relating to Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derby), The Countess of Bristol, Lord and Lady Byron, The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster Bart, and Others, 1777-1859
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
GLYN'S, 1753-1953: Six Generations in Lombard Street
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
FEELING BRITISH: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832
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
A MEMOIR OF FREDERICK P. HART, LT. CDR., R.N., FOR HIS FRIENDS
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
DOMESDAY BOOK ILLUSTRATED: containing An Account of that Antient Record; as also, Of the Tenants in Capite or Serjanty therein mentioned: and A Translation of the difficult Passages, with occasional Notes; An Explanation of the Terms, Abbreviations, and Names of Foreign Abbies: An an Alphabetical Table of the Tenants in Capite or Serjanty in the several Counties contained in that Survey.
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
A VACATION IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS AND OTHER PLACES
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
THE STONE CROSSES OF THE COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON
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
THE VICTORIAN COUNTRYSIDE
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
Private Matters and Public Culture in Post-Reformation England
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
QUEEN MARY, 1867-1953
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
THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDAR
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
THE LIFE OF FULKE GREVILLE: First Lord Brooke
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
JOHN WILKES: The Lives of a Libertine
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
BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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
SIR ANDREW JUDDE: Lord Mayor of London 1550-51, Mayor of the Staple of Calais, Six Times Master of the Skinners' Company, Founder of Tonbridge School 1553
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
GESTA REGUM ANGLORUM, ATQUE HISTORIA NOVELLA. Ad Fidem Codicum Manuscriptorum Recensuit Thomas Duffus Hardy.
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
The Eighteenth Century Constitution, 1688-1815: Documents and Commentary
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
ON FOOT IN DEVON or Guidance and Gossip being a Monologue in Two Reels
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
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