THE CAMBRIDGE URBAN HISTORY OF BRITAIN (3 VOLUMES)
Written by D.M. Palliser; Peter Clark; Martin Daunton.
Stock no. 1830885
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2000. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The complex and diverse evolution of British towns from the earliest Anglo-Saxon settlements to the mid-twentieth century. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spines. Volume I: 600 - 1540; Volume II: 1540-1840; Volume III:P 1840 - 1950. A heavy set. A lovely set. Dustwrappers are lightly scuffed.

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MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT: STUDIES IN HONOUR OF PETER KIDSON
Written by Peter Kidson; Eric Fernie; Paul Crossley.
Stock no. 1830884
Published by The Hambledon Press. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Presented by ex-pupils and friends to Peter Kidson, Professor of Medieval Architecture at the Courtauld Institute, as a mark of respect and affection for arguably the most influential historian of medieval architecture of his generation in the English-speaking world. The essays in this volume reflect the range of Peter Kidson's own interests and are united in following his approach to medieval architecture and art: a determination to see buildings and objects in the intellectual terms of the time in which they were created. Edited by Eric Fernie and Paul Crossley. Navy blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xxvii and 304 pages including list of subscribers to rear. ISBN: 1852850345. Neat name in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Blue dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed. Includes letter from and signed by Peter Kidson.

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THE MEDIAEVAL ARCHITECT
Written by John Harvey.
Stock no. 1830883
Published by Wayland (Publishers) Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of the mediaeval architect is here told to a great extent in the words of contemporaries, translated into modern English in the case of documents in Latin or foreign languages. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and diagrams. 296 pages including index. ISBN: 0853400229. Light shelf wear to top & tail of spine. Boards clean. Text block browned with some minor foxing. Minor surface papper loss/damage to frontis and facing title page. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-rubbed and scuffed, small closed tear (no loss) to lower edge of rear panel.

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SYLLOGE OF COINS OF THE BRITISH ISLES FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM CAMBRIDGE PART I: ANCIENT BRITISH AND ANGLO-SAXON COINS
Written by Philip Grierson.
Stock no. 1830882
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1958. Very good condition.

The first fascicule of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles contains the Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, numbering 216-777 respectively. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w plates. xix and 70 pages inlcuding index. Boards lightly scuffed, very light fading to spine. Text block and endpapers browned. Contents clean.

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LORDSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCOTLAND
Written by Richard D. Oram; Geofrrey P. Stell.
Stock no. 1830881
Published by John Donald. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

A series of essays on the role of acrchitecure as an expression of lordship and status among Scottish secular and ecclesiastical elites in the period c.1124-c.1650. These studies of the acrchitectural patronage of particular families or groups explore how the nobility operated socially and economically as well as politically, in the organisation and structure of lordship throughout the medieval and renaissance periods. Edited by Richard Oram and Geoffrey Snell. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. xxii and 346 pages including index. ISBN: 9780859766289. Light scuffing to covers and rubbing to edges. Contents clean.

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THE CORNISH BEAM ENGINE
Written by D.B. Barton.
Stock no. 1830880
Published by D. Bradford Barton. 1st 1965. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A survey of its history and development in the mines of Cornwall and Devon from before 1800 to the present day, with something of its use elsewhere in Britain and abroad. Blue mottled boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and plans. 285 pages including index. Light bumping to board corners. Boadrs clean. Text block a little browned with a couple of minor foxspots. Small name in coloured pencil to front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby.

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THE CATHEDRAL BUILDERS
Written by Jean Gimpel.
Stock no. 1830878
Published by Michael Russell. 1st thus 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Medieval Europe was distinguished by the spectacular development of religious architecture from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries - eighty cathedrals, five hundred great churches, and more than ten thousand parish churches. In France alone, more stone was quarried in this span of three centuries than during the entire history of ancient Egypt. Translated from the French by Teresa Waugh. Large format. Dark blue boards with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos and a few colour. 127 pages including index. ISBN: 0859550931. Boards clean, lower edge of boars lightly rubbed. Some minor foxing to text block. Endpapers lightly browned else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel and is lightly edge-creased.

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MEDIEVAL SOUTHAMPTON: THE PORT AND TRADING COMMUNITY, A.D. 1000-1600
Written by Colin Platt.
Stock no. 1830877
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1st 1973. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A look at the urban community of Southampton through its early and formative years, using both historical and archaeological evidence to establish the characteristics of an emergent burgess class: its trading interests, social pre-occupations and tastes. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xvi and 309 pages including index. ISBN: 0710076533. Boards clean, text block browned and lightly foxed. Else contents clean. Red dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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THE GREAT PEKING TO PARIS EXPEDITION
Written by Warren Brown; Mick Matheson; Lang Kidby.
Stock no. 1330714
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2005. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The fascinating story of the ultimate road trip and the people who made it in 1907. With no roads, and no maps, but eleven men in five cars farewelled Peking to drive 10,000 miles to Paris. Almost a century later, in 2005, a grand scheme was concocted to re-create the original 1907 Peking to Paris Raid in the original makes of veteran cars. An engrossing record of the remarkable modern-day expedition, comprising the authors' fascinating, often hilarious and always compelling diary entries along with breathtaking photographs. Large format. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 0732282535. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is edge worn.

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DAIMLER & LANCHESTER A CENTURY OF MOTORING HISTORY
Written by Brian Long.
Stock no. 1330699
Published by Longford International Publications. 1st 1995. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. A definitive history. 329 pages plus appendix. B/w photos. ISBN: 1899154019. Spine and corners bumped. A few light scratch marks and dents to covers. Some wrinkling of front pastedown (binding error) else contents fine. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased and rubbed.

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THE SCOTTISH TOWN IN THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 1740-1820
Written by Bob Harris; Charles McKean.
Stock no. 1830866
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st 2014. Slightly better than very good condition.

A pioneering study of 18th-century Scottish urbanism. The story of a profound transformation in the nature of the urban environment and urban society. It exxplores the development of Scots burghs, their changing material cultures, regulation and cultural life, and shows the true character of the Scottish urban experience in a period often identified with the intellectual flowering that later became identified as the Scottish Enlightenment. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w and a few colour illustrations. xx and 604 pages. ISBN: 9780748692576. Old barcode price to rear cover. Text block a little grubby. Else contents clean.

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JOHN LELAND'S ITINERARY: TRAVELS IN TUDOR ENGLAND
Written by John Chandler.
Stock no. 1830865
Published by Sutton Publishing Limited. 1st thus 1998. Slightly better than very good condition.

John Leland was a humanist scholar and royal servant who wrote this famed account of his journeys through England as 'the king's antiquary' in the 1540s, though the Itinerary was not published until 1710. This edition retians everything in the Itinerary of historical or topographical interest, turning the text into modern English and arranging it by historic county. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xxxvi and 601 pages including index. ISBN: 0750917512. Sight reading crease to spine. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

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