London: Arthur Barker Limited, (1979). First edition, 8vo, 158, (2) pp. Cloth, second state d.w., a little rubbed with some loss to the spine ends and corners.

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London: Ward, Lock and Tyler, [c.1869]. 197th thousand. 8vo. xli, (ii), 1139, (1) pp., bound without the advertisements. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine and the gilt lettered maroon label, marbled endpapers, the front pastedown featuring an attractive gilt lettered label presenting the.....

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Venetia [Venice]: nelle case de figlioli di Aldo [I Manuzio], 1545. Fourth Aldine printing. Small folio. (122) ff. Eighteenth century full pigskin, gilt lettering to the spine, all edges green, a single leaf in book three lacking but the text supplied in consummate manuscript, predating or contemporary with the binding.....

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London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, two volumes, 8vo. 12 plates and a folding map plus a folding genealogy. Bookplates of Bath Municipal Library to paste downs, with accession numbers to the fly leaves and title versos, plus blind stamps to the frontispieces, titles and several other preliminary leaves in.....

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London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition. 4to. xii, 67, (1) pp. Pink beaded cloth backed white boards, these decorated with large gilt circles, early pencilled gift inscription. Colour frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text plus 27 photographic portrait plates. Slight sunning to the spine, two small marks to the cloth.....

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London: William Phillips, 1822. Sole edition. 8vo. (viii), lxi, (3), 58, (2), 59-470, (2) pp. Recent dark green moiré cloth, gilt lettered red spine label, early ownership inscription of a W. Parry to the head of the title page. Geological frontispiece map of England and Wales plus a long hand.....

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London: Printed by J. Dillon, and Co., for, and sold by, W. and S. Jones, 1799. Fifth edition. 8vo. xiv, 594, 14, 2 pp. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with double gilt rules, gilt lettered green label, gilt device of a bird to the other panels, the ownership inscription of a......

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London: Grant & Co., 1872. First edition. Folio. xii, 191, (1) pp. Contemporary wine red full morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel and decorated to the others, gilt lettering to the upper board also, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, second title and 52 plates.....

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London: B.T. Batsford, (1940). First edition, viii, 136 pp. Black and white photographic plates plus a couple of paintings reproduced in colour. Elizabeth David's copy, with her booklabel and ten bookmarks saving places in the volume, nine of which are inscribed by her with the relevant details and page numbers.....

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London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, and R. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1742. First edition thus. Two volumes. 4to. xxxii, (xii), vi, (ii), 355, (1); xii, 388 pp. Nineteenth century full calf, the boards with gilt ruled panels with blindstamped decoration, rebacked to style in a......

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London: Duckworth, 1928. First edition. 8vo. 292 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket, the ownership inscription of an Ianthi Zygounas dated July 1928 to the front free endpaper. Frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, mostly photographic and including many taken by the author. The.....

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Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, (1995). Limited edition, no. 6 of 30 specially bound copies signed by Christopher Buckland Wright, from a total edition of 240, folio, 28, (4) pp. 9 illustrations tipped in plus the frontispiece and 24 wood engraved illustrations. Gilt titled full vellum, folding cloth box, the.....

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