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 about OLD CHESHIRE FAMILIES & THEIR SEATS
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 about THE EMERGENCE OF ESTATE MAPS; Christ Church, Oxford 1600-1840
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 about OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE: Delineated by Hanslip Fletcher, with Introduction by J. Willis Clark, M.A.,...
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 about GLYN'S, 1753-1953: Six Generations in Lombard Street
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. "This book is primarily concerned with diplomatic relations between Britain and the states of the European continent. It also takes into account economic interests, religious aversions, dynastic... More about Great Britain and Europe in the Eighteenth Century
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1993. Hardcover. Collector's Edition. The complete ten volume set of this seminal work, which covers the 17-year period from 1685 to 1702, encompassing the reign of James II, the Glorious... More about THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES THE SECOND
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972. Trade paperback. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More about THE SHAPING OF THE ELIZABETHAN REGIME
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 about A VACATION IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS AND OTHER PLACES
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 about THE STONE CROSSES OF THE COUNTY OF NORTHAMPTON
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 about THE VICTORIAN COUNTRYSIDE
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 about Private Matters and Public Culture in Post-Reformation England
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "Literature is used to elucidate not only the cultural but also the economic and political history of the period; studies of manuscripts provide important evidence for... More about ENGLAND IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY: Proceedings of the 1985 Harlaxton Symposium
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 about THE COMPLETE NEWGATE CALENDAR
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 about THE LIFE OF FULKE GREVILLE: First Lord Brooke
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 312 p. Frontispiece portrait, with 71 textual illustrations, including many in color. Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), a glamorous and well-known figure in Britain for... More about SASSOON: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire: Moonraker Press, 1977. Soft cover. 160 p. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More about The Warrior Kings of Saxon England
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 about The Eighteenth Century Constitution, 1688-1815: Documents and Commentary
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 about ON FOOT IN DEVON or Guidance and Gossip being a Monologue in Two Reels